Primary Recipient

SMITH-KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE

Amount

$840,322.00

Award Date

8/11/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

We propose to develop and evaluate a cell-phone based system to enable blind and visually impaired individuals to find and read street signs and other signs relevant to wayfinding. Using the built-in camera and computing power of a standard cell phone, t