The method, computer program product and computer system may include computing device which may create a user profile based on user data associated with a user and animal data associated with the user's service animal. The computing device may receive a destination input and determine one or more routes to the input destination, the one or more routes each being associated with a set of route commands. The computing device may receive a route selection and translate the set of route commands associated with the selected route into a set of service animal command signals. The computing device may transmit a first service animal command signal from the set of service animal command signals to a signal device, the signal device being attached to the user's service animal and generate an output by the signal device corresponding with the first service animal command signal.

A navigation method for the visually impaired includes the following steps. After obtaining construction information and/or real-time traffic information, a server can transmit the construction information and/or real-time traffic information according to a geographical location. Each traffic condition information transmission device can receive the construction information and/or the real-time traffic information corresponding to a location thereof and forward the construction information and/or the real-time traffic information. A mobile device can modify a navigation route after receiving the construction information and/or the real-time traffic information transmitted from any traffic information transmission device on the navigation route, and the mobile device can convert the construction information and/or the real-time traffic information into a speech message and convert the modified navigation route into a real-time speech guiding message. Thus, the mobile device can perform navigation effectively to avoid the road section under construction or the road section with abnormal traffic condition.

An illuminated, multi-function cane for use by low-vision individuals is described and claimed. The device's various pulsating lights enable low-vision people to travel at night with assured confidence that they will be seen by drivers and cyclists from a safe distance exceeding one mile on a dark street! While at a high traffic lit city intersection the Lumi cane is very noticeable with its strobing rainbow lights 200 yards away, even with competition from other bright artificial lights. Even in dense fog Lumi's LED lights are visible at 40 to 75 yards distance.

A method detects the image of an obstacle-free region surrounding a photograph-capturing unit. A photograph of a portion of the environment of the photograph-capturing unit is created by the photograph-capturing unit and a digital picture is created. The digital picture is examined for the presence of possible boundaries of an obstacle-free region, a boundary indicator value being determined for each individual pixel of the digital picture in accordance with the picture data of the digital picture within an environment of the pixel in question. The picture data being defined pixel by pixel, the boundary indicator value indicating the probability that the image of the boundary of an obstacle-free region is located within a specified pixel environment. A coordinate parameterization having two parameters is specified for the digital picture, which coordinate parameterization corresponds in particular to the pixel coordinates.

A thermal display module configured to create a thermal pattern discerned by a visually impaired user to determine his or her surroundings. The thermal display module includes a plurality of thermoelectric modules, each of which are configured to cool or heat a pixel plate in close proximity to a user's skin. The cooling or heating of each of the thermoelectric modules create the thermal pattern discernable by the user.

Visual impairment, or vision impairment, refers to the vision loss of an individual to such a degree as to require additional support for one or more aspects of their life. Such a significant limitation of visual capability may result from disease, trauma, congenital, and/or degenerative conditions that cannot be corrected by conventional means, such as refractive correction, such as eyeglasses or contact lenses, medication, or surgery. According to embodiments of the invention a method of augmenting a user's sight is provided comprising obtaining an image of a scene using a camera carried by the individual, transmitting the obtained image to a processor, selecting an algorithm of a plurality of spectral, spatial, and temporal image modification algorithms to be applied to the image by the processor, modifying the image using the algorithm substantially in real time, and displaying the modified image on a display device worn by the individual.

An illuminated, multi-function cane for use by low-vision individuals is described and claimed. The device's various pulsating lights enable low-vision people to travel at night with assured confidence that they will be seen by drivers and cyclists from a safe distance exceeding one mile on a dark street! While at a high traffic lit city intersection the Lumi cane is very noticeable with its strobing rainbow lights 200 yards away, even with competition from other bright artificial lights. Even in dense fog Lumi's LED lights are visible at 40 to 75 yards distance.

There is provided a processing unit that includes a direction decision unit and a guide information generation unit. The direction decision unit determines a direction in which a person who behaves without a sense of sight walks. The guide information generation unit generates guide information for the person who behaves without the sense of sight to walk in the determined direction. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a smartphone or the like used by the person who behaves without the sense of sight.

A walking support device includes a shape detector configured to detect a shape of a road surface on which a user moves, and a display controller configured to provide an auxiliary image emphasizing an uneven state of the road surface such that the auxiliary image is superimposed on the shape of the road surface on the basis of a result of the detection of the shape detector.

A health hazards geolocation control system for monitoring potential health hazards (PHHs) endangering users using the system for detecting PHHs endangering them, for example a pedestrian, wherein the system may include a personal health hazards monitoring system having an image capturing and processing units, and wherein the image sensor is situated in the vicinity of the user, for example, by wearing it or is flown by a drone associated with that system. Upon detecting a PHH the system warns the user to prevent their fall. The geolocation control system, or similar systems of, may be by the user or other users, to form a pool of health hazards and associated score. Thus, other users on that location may be warned of the reported health hazard. The system may advise a user which is the safest path to walk, having a minimal, level or number of PHHs, and highest safety score.