Study about implementation of an Embedded system for low vision handcapped person

Sang Yep Nam: Kyung Moon College,san45,changan-dong, Pyongtaek-shi, Kyeongki-do, 459-070 Korea (TEL) +82-31-610-8122 (FAX) +82-31-610-8120 (E-Mail) r13337@unitel.co.kr(URL) http://www.kmc.ac.kr

Abstract

As the development of medical technology and improvement of way of life, the number of visually handicapped person has been increased. There are many vision aid equipments have been developed. such as a ultrasonic telemeter which used the other sense to assist the sense of eyesight, optical character recognition(OCR), as well as system applying to so called the eyesight recovery surgery and a magnify lens which is known to glasses for the aged. However, most of those vision aid equipment can not produce massively since they should be customized depending on the level of seriousness so price of each equipment can be quite sizable. This study is to introduce a portable low cost vision aid for the visually handicapped person especially those who has a low vision under the class 4. The system consists of a system which applies contemporary technology such as image magnifying, control of wave length, control of intensity of radiation, and focus adjustment. This study also shows its efficiency and convenience of usage comparing with a simple type magnify lens through clinical experiment..

Short Biography

Prof. Sang Yep Nam is a professor of Department of information & communication of Kyung Moon College(KMC) in Korea. He has an interest in an Embedded system, a Speech recognition system, a medical image processing system and a factory automation field and is studying it.

Before joining KMC, he worked at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology in Korea and a technical research organization of Motorola from 1987 to 1998. While he worked at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, he developed an industrial control system of CISC 68K CPU, and RTOS(VRTX etc). While work at Motorola of a CD/DVD related application field and a RISC Embedded system related application field was developed. He published over 25 papers in international conferences and journals, including IEEK, IWIT, ITC-CSCC and ICEIC. He received a B.S. in 1982 and a M.S. in 1984 from the Dankook University in Electronics Engineering and a Ph.D. in 2002 from the Dankook University in Electronics Engineering.