A display device and a haptic feedback display method of the display device are provided. The display device includes a display panel including a display region, and a touch-control sensor disposed at least in the display region and used to detect a touch-control operation. The display device also includes a control unit electrically connected to at least the display panel. The control unit is used to change an operation mode of the display device, and according to the touch-control operation detected by the touch-control sensor, to adjust a display object of the display panel. The operation mode includes at least a blind operation mode. Further, the display device includes at least one button structure disposed in the display region. In the blind operation mode, a touch surface of the display device is in a raised state at a location of a button structure of the at least one button structure.

A communication system for communicating between a hearing user using a hearing user's communication device and an assisted user, the communication system comprising a relay that receives a hearing user's voice signal and converts that voice signal to text, a text to braille converter that receives the text generated at the relay and converts that text to braille data, a braille display device that is capable of generating braille messages that can be detected by an assisted user via touch and an assisted user's captioned device that receives the braille data and uses the braille data to drive the braille display device to generate braille messages for the assisted user to sense.

Provided is an information output apparatus and method. The information output apparatus includes a plurality of expression members configured to protrude or retract by moving in at least one direction and being sensed by a user when protruding or retracting; an activation area calculator configured to calculate a series of braille letters as an activation area on the plurality of expression members; a non-activation area calculator configured to calculate a space between the braille letters as a non-activation area in the activation area; and a plurality of actuation controllers configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the activation area to protrude or retract and configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the non-activation area to retract.

An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and system for generating haptic feedback patterns by a mobile device. An embodiment may include generating a haptic feedback in response to a change in a geographic location of the mobile device resulting in a corresponding forecasted change in a network signal strength of the mobile device.

There is presented a system and method for providing real-time object recognition to a remote user. The system comprises a portable communication device including a camera, at least one client-server host device remote from and accessible by the portable communication device over a network, and a recognition database accessible by the client-server host device or devices. A recognition application residing on the client-server host device or devices is capable of utilizing the recognition database to provide real-time object recognition of visual imagery captured using the portable communication device to the remote user of the portable communication device. In one embodiment, a sighted assistant shares an augmented reality panorama with a visually impaired user of the portable communication device where the panorama is constructed from sensor data from the device.

A first system for maintaining an inventory of goods available for purchase and providing images relating thereto; a second system for wirelessly communicating the images to a mobile communications and computing platform; a third system operationally coupled the mobile communications and computing platform for displaying on the mobile platform at least one of the images of one of the goods on the platform in response to a user's navigation; and a fourth system for effecting a purchase transaction with respect to at least one of the goods correlated with the displayed image. In the augmented reality embodiment, navigation is effected by physically moving the mobile platform relative to the inventive vending machine whereby the products displayed, and the views thereof, change and vary as a function of the relative position of the mobile platform and the vending machine. As an alternative, the physical vending machine is replaced with a virtual vending machine adapted to display the goods on the user's mobile platform in a three-dimensional space.

Disclosed is a method for notifying arrival of a vehicle to respond to the transportation vulnerable including determining a vehicle notification step based on a distance between the vehicle and a person scheduled to board when the vehicle approaches a location where a call is made in response to the call of the person scheduled to board who is the transportation vulnerable, and providing a vehicle arrival notification based on the determined vehicle notification step.

Techniques for providing adaptive assistive technology for assisting users with visual impairment can be used on a computing device. These techniques include displaying content to a user, capturing a series of images or video of the user using a camera, analyzing the series of images or video to determine whether the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment, and rendering a magnification user interface on the display configured to magnify at least a portion of the content of the display based on a determination that the user is exhibiting behavior or characteristics indicative of visual impairment. The magnification user interface may be controlled based on head and/or eye movements of the user of the computing device.

Provided is an information output apparatus and method. The information output apparatus includes a plurality of expression members configured to protrude or retract by moving in at least one direction and being sensed by a user when protruding or retracting; an activation area calculator configured to calculate a series of braille letters as an activation area on the plurality of expression members; a non-activation area calculator configured to calculate a space between the braille letters as a non-activation area in the activation area; and a plurality of actuation controllers configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the activation area to protrude or retract and configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the non-activation area to retract.

Provided is an information output apparatus and method. The information output apparatus includes a plurality of expression members configured to protrude or retract by moving in at least one direction and being sensed by a user when protruding or retracting; an activation area calculator configured to calculate a series of braille letters as an activation area on the plurality of expression members; a non-activation area calculator configured to calculate a space between the braille letters as a non-activation area in the activation area; and a plurality of actuation controllers configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the activation area to protrude or retract and configured to actuate expression members corresponding to the non-activation area to retract.