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We construct a system for a visually impaired person. On our system, an image is input by a camera, is transformed by an image conversion system, and is provided to the visually impaired person by an eyewear like glasses. If this system is used, a person can move with the eyewear, and also can watch a scene in the position of line of sight. In the eyewear composed of our system, which is made by QDLaser Inc., the image is projected directly onto a retina. QDLaser Inc. has worked on a small-sized scanning optics to be installed inside the glass frame, and has developed the eyewear named Retinal Imaging Laser Eyewear with the trademark of RETISSA. One of remarkable features of RETISSA is focus free. Regardless of the function of a crystalline lens and eyesight, the wearer can see laser scanned full-color image captured by a digital camera installed in the center of the frame connected to a controller. One of other features of RETISSA is an attractive appearance of eyewear. RETISSA also enables universal design like sunglasses and corrective glasses and realizes complete AR. We explain the system and this eyewear.
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We got cooperation to Dr. Yutaka Shirao, an Asanogawa General Hospital ophthalmologist, and Ms. Kazue Ozasa of the orthoptist. I appreciate. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant number 26350291. And I am thankful to the subjects who cooperated in the experiment, and the students of a seminar. Moreover, cooperation of a visually impaired person’s people was also obtained. I appreciate deeply.
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Shimomura, Y., Kawabe, H., Nambo, H., Seto, S., Suzuki, M., Sugawara, M. (2017). The Support System for a Visual Impaired Person Using Laser Eyewear. In: Xu, J., Hajiyev, A., Nickel, S., Gen, M. (eds) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 502. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1837-4_6
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