An approach towards the development of refreshable Braille Computer Display Unit

Abstract

Modern time is the age of digitalization. People are accessing information with the advancement of digital technology. Blinds have very limited accessible resources to access this digitalized information. In this article, a novel proposal about working and development of an electronic refreshable braille display unit to build a getaway to the digital world for the blind people. An economic adoption of a tactile display having an array of six small independent vibrator motors are arranged in an array of a 3×2 matrix. The system would be enabled to initially capture information from computer screen then with suitable image processing, characters recognition and stimulation of target motor/s would enable enhanced readability of the texts.