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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2012
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA (US);
The United States Government As Represented BY the Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (US);
Joseph F. Rizzo, III, Newton, MA (US);
Attila Priplata, Arlington, MA (US);
Minnan Xu, Cambridge, MA (US);
Conrad Wall, III, Boston, MA (US);
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Boston, MA (US);
The United States Government As Represented By The Department Of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
The disclosure features visual assistive devices that include a detection apparatus configured to receive information about an environment surrounding a user of the visual assistive device, a communication apparatus configured to transmit information to the user, and an electronic processor coupled to the detection apparatus and the communication apparatus, and configured to: receive information about an activity of the user; filter the information about the environment surrounding the user based on the activity of the user; assign a priority rank to each element of the filtered information based on the activity of the user; and transmit at least some of the elements of the filtered information, according to the assigned priority ranks, to the user using the communication apparatus.