Multi-Line Refreshable Braille Display

多行可刷新盲文显示器

• 批准号: 8116490
• 负责人: PETER DURAN
• 金额: $ 47.96万
• 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 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8116490
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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）：由触觉显示公司 (TDC) 提出的项目支持 NIH/NEI 开发帮助盲人的设备的使命。盲人学生在使用当今的可刷新盲文显示器 (RBD) 阅读时需要克服两个障碍：无法一次阅读多行文字，因为这些设备仅显示一行文本；以及无法阅读学校材料，因为直到最近还没有办法将书籍转换为适合 RBD 显示的文件格式。 TDC 的项目有两个克服这些障碍的长期目标：(1) 开发多行可刷新盲文显示器 (MRBD)，能够显示格式正确的文本、图表和表格；(2) 开发用于转换教科书并将其显示在 MRBD 上的软件。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 将成为 MRBD 的基本构建块。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、工程原型制造以及焦点小组审查。 2006 年 7 月 19 日，美国教育部通过了教科书国家教学材料无障碍标准 (NIMAS)。为了实现目标（2），TDC 与 Computer Application Specialties Company (CASC) 结成联盟，共同开发用于 MRBD 的 NIMAS 转换和显示软件。借助该软件，MRBD 将为盲人学生提供格式正确的 NIMAS 盲文教科书，涵盖所有科目。这些目标的实现将为美国盲人带来诸多好处：负担得起的 MRBD 设备（每个盲文点 1.00 美元，而不是 18.75 美元）、获得列表材料、全页盲文图书阅读器，以及最重要的是，与视力正常的同龄人平等。