{"id":289435,"date":"2023-06-19T13:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=289435"},"modified":"2023-06-19T13:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T11:46:40","slug":"krakow-university-of-technology-students-develop-innovative-braille-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/krakow-university-of-technology-students-develop-innovative-braille-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Krak\u00f3w University of Technology students develop innovative Braille display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Braille display with a system for processing characters and recognising text from a photograph has been developed by Krakow University of Technology (PK) students Bart\u0142omiej Szostak and Hubert Orlicki.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using artificial intelligence, the device will allow books to be translated into Braille on an ongoing basis and can also be used by blind people to learn the language.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A low-cost prototype of the device is already being developed so that it can reach a wider range of users. The problem of accessing literary works and textbooks affects a huge number of visually impaired people. It is estimated that only 1 % of books worldwide have been translated into Braille.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The device designed by PK students includes a camera that collects a real-time image of the text to be translated. With the support of algorithms including artificial intelligence (AI), it then displays an array of tabs that translate the image into Braille. The translated text is displayed from left to right on the Braille display, taking into account the relevant rules.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Braille display with a system for processing characters and recognising text from a photograph has been developed by Krakow University of Technology (PK) students Bart\u0142omiej Szostak and Hubert Orlicki.\u00a0 Using artificial intelligence, the device will allow books to be translated into Braille on an ongoing basis and can also be used by blind people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":289273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289442,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289435\/revisions\/289442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}