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Jul 20, 2022

Sullivan+ (blind, low vision)

Summary

The Sullivan+ app is a visual aid app designed to enhance the accessibility of visually impaired and low vision users. It uses the smartphone camera to provide information and can be used to identify objects, text, and other visual elements. The app also has an AI mode that automatically finds the best results for the taken photos. The app can be used to check the contents of various documents such as mail, magazines, and newspapers by recognizing text.

Features

1. The Sullivan+ app is a visual aid app designed for visually impaired and low vision users.
2. The app uses the smartphone camera to enhance accessibility and provide information to users.
3. AI mode automatically finds the best results for the taken photos.
4. The app can be used to check the contents of various documents such as mail, magazines, and newspapers.
5. Text recognition feature allows users to find text and receive audio feedback.

Keywords

Blind, low vision, visual aid, accessibility, smartphone camera, AI mode, text recognition, document check, TUAT Corp.

If you install and distribute the Sullivan+ app on a product(device), you must obtain approval from TUAT Corp.

Sullivan + is a visual-aid app provided by TUAT Corp. to enhance the accessibility of the visually impaired and low vision users and informs users who need visual aids about information perceived via the smartphone camera.

■ With only one shot, you can get the help that suits the situation.

AI mode-AI automatically finds the best results that fit the taken photos.

■ Did you experience difficulty checking the contents of various documents such as mail, magazines, and newspapers?

Text Recognition-Finds a text and tells you by sound. Point the camera on the place you want text recognition.

■ When you meet a new person, it tells you which person he or she is.

Face Recognition- It recognizes a person photographed with a camera and tells the person’s age and gender.

■ Have you ever wondered what your surroundings look like?

Image Description – Identifies objects around you and creates a sentence that describes the identified scene.

■ Whenever you are getting ready to go out in the morning, did you have difficulty finding the color of clothes you wanted?

Color Recognition- Supports the single-color mode that tells you the color of the center of the screen and the full-color mode that tells you the color that occupies a large part of the entire screen.

■ Do you worry if the lights were on all night?

Light Brightness – The brightness sensor on the front of the smartphone tells you the light brightness. (Only available in smartphones with brightness sensor)

■ It also helps those who are uncomfortable due to low vision, not total visual impairment.

Magnifying glass function- Using the zoom function of the camera, it enlarges or reduces an object or text or inverts the color.

[Main functions]

1. AI mode

2. Text recognition

3. Face recognition

4. Image description

5. Color recognition

6. Light brightness

7. Magnifier

■ App Accessibility (MA) Certification

[Access Rights Guide]

Camera – Use camera API to control the camera and take photos.

Storage – Temporarily save the captured image and delete it after the image analysis.

※ Sullivan+ can be used only on Android 5.0 or higher.

Translation support: Maksym Bilak(Ukrainian), Mohssine Fahli(Arabic), Kent(Russian), Marco Rafael Fernandes(Portugues), Corentin Bacqué-cazenave(French), Aurimas Žiška(Lithuanian), Meisam Amini(Persian), Francesco Sarnataro(Italian), Uladzimir(Belarusan), Dimitris Tharenos(Greek), Darko Milošević(Serbian), Tarik Hadžirović(Croatian), Łukasz Karpowicz(Polish)