MAP RECOGNITION VOICE DEVICE FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSON

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a portable map recognition voice device for a visually impaired parson which enables a visually impaired person including an amblyopic person to grasp correct map information and actual distance and enables a healthy person and a visually impaired person to share the information by being visually recognizable as an ordinary printed matter, and which enables voice register and voice reproduction of the map information of a position by pushing the corresponding projected position on the map with a finger tip. SOLUTION: Transparent symbol projections easy to feel directly or indirectly with a fingertip are formed on a printed map with right bearing and right reduction scale. The projections are made to mean prescribed map information, and the interval between projections on a road represents the actual distance. The device is provided with a function to register the voice information of the position of the projection and to reproduce and output the voice by pressing the projection with a finger, etc., A map of any place in the whole country can be used by replacing and laying over the recognition device.