Wearable Tetherless Computer-Mediated Reality: WearCam as a Wearable Face-Recognizer, and Other Applications for the Disabled
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’WearCam’, a wearable multimedia system with video processing capability and wireless Internet connection, has rccently been proposed(Mann 1994b). In this paper, WearCam is presented as a prosthetic device. In particular, two example applications: the ’personal visual assistant’; and the ’visual memory prosthetlc’ are described. Tlle ’personal visual assistant’ embodies a spatial visual filter(Mann 1994a) that rcconfigures the human visual system, providing a coordinate transformation (remapping of spatial coordinates). Such coordinate transformations, it is hoped, might someday be of use to the partially sighted. The ’visual memory prosthetic(?)’ embodies a temporal visual filter that provides computerinduced flashbacks (possibly together with annotation). These ’flashbacks’ currently help the author overcome visual amnesia. It is hoped that, with f, rthcr research, the apparatus and approach might someday lead to perceptual intelligence that we can wear, and be of great benefit to the disabled.
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