SBIR/STTR Research Award
FOR BLIND OPTACON USERS
Award amount
$29,928Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1984Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Education
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Telesensory Systems Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE OPTACON DIRECT-TRANSLATION READING MACHINE FOR THE BLIND HAS BEEN WIDELY DISSEMINATED IN SCHOOLS. THE "OPTACONPLUS" OUTPUT SYSTEM WILL ALLOW THE OPTACON TO INTERFACE TO A WIDE RANGE OF TYPING, COMPUTING, AND PRINTING DEVICES, THEREBY EXTENDING THE OPTACON FROM A READ-ONLY SYSTEM TO A NOTETAKING, EDITING, PRINTING, AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM. THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF OPTACONPLUS WILL BE INVESTIGATED. A LABORATORY PROTOTYPE WILL BE DESIGNED, CONSTRUCTED, AND EVALUATED, THEN PRELIMINARY PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS WILL BE WRITTEN.
Technology keywords
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