Multi-Line Refreshable Braille Display

多行可刷新盲文显示器

• 批准号: 8065706
• 负责人: PETER DURAN
• 金额: $ 34.87万
• 依托单位: TACTILE DISPLAY CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8065706
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The project proposed by Tactile Display Corporation (TDC) supports the NIH/NEI mission to develop devices to aid the blind. A blind student has 2 hurdles to overcome when reading with today's refreshable braille display (RBD): the inability to read more than one line at a time because these devices only display a single line of text, and, the inability to read school materials because until recently there's been no way to get books into the proper file format for RBD display. TDC's project has 2 long-term objectives that will overcome these hurdles: (1) development of a multi-line refreshable braille display (MRBD) able to display properly formatted text, charts and tables, and, (2) development of software to convert textbooks and display them on an MRBD. The specific aims to achieve objective (1) are to complete the development of the components for TDC's braille display module (BDM). The BDM will be the basic building-block for an MRBD. The project's research design includes creation of 3D computer models for all MRBD components, production of prototype parts using Computer Numeric Control (CNC) technology, manufacture of engineering prototypes, and reviews by focus groups. On July 19, 2006 the U. S. Department of Education adopted a National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) for schoolbooks. To achieve objective (2), TDC has formed an alliance with Computer Application Specialties Company (CASC) to jointly develop NIMAS conversion and display software for an MRBD. With this software, an MRBD will provide blind students access to properly formatted NIMAS textbooks in braille in all subjects. Realization of these objectives will offer blind Americans several benefits: affordable MRBD devices ($1.00 per braille dot instead of $18.75), access to tabulated materials, full-page braille book readers and most importantly, parity with sighted peers.

描述（由申请人提供）：触觉显示公司（TDC）提出的项目支持NIH/NEI使命开发设备，以帮助盲人。盲人学生在使用当今可刷新盲文显示器（RBD）进行阅读时需要克服两个障碍：一是无法同时阅读多行，因为这些设备只显示单行文本;二是无法阅读学校材料，因为直到最近还没有办法将书籍转换为RBD显示器的正确文件格式。贸发局的项目有两个长期目标，将克服这些障碍：（1）开发一个多行可刷新盲文显示器（MRBD），能够显示正确格式的文本，图表和表格，（2）开发软件转换教科书，并显示在MRBD上。实现目标（1）的具体目标是完成TDC盲文显示模块（BDM）组件的开发。BDM将是MRBD的基本组成部分。该项目的研究设计包括为所有MRBD组件创建3D计算机模型，使用计算机数控（CNC）技术生产原型零件，制造工程原型，以及焦点小组的审查。2006年7月19日，美国S.教育部通过了教科书国家教材无障碍标准。为达致目标（2），贸发局已与计算机应用专业公司（CASC）结成联盟，共同为一个多媒体广播系统开发NIMAS转换及显示软件。有了这一软件，一个多学科盲人图书馆将为盲人学生提供所有科目的盲文版、格式适当的国家统计研究所教科书。这些目标的实现将为美国盲人提供几个好处：负担得起的MRBD设备（每个盲文点1.00美元而不是18.75美元），获得表格材料，全页盲文阅读器，最重要的是，与视力正常的同龄人平等。