One second of text to speech, Israel's unicorn's "black technology" has become the eye of 17.31 million blind people

"Make good use of your eyes as if you were going to suffer from blindness tomorrow." This is a famous sentence in "if give me three days of light", but it is also a true reflection of many people In 1984, at the founding conference of the world blind alliance held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, October 15 of each year was designated as the international blind day, also known as the white hand battle day, in order to strengthen the attention of blind groups According to the classification and classification of the disabled, visual disability is divided into blindness and low vision If the radius of field of vision is less than 10 degrees, it belongs to secondary blindness; if the radius of field of vision is less than 5 degrees, it is called primary blindness According to the latest data, the number of blind people in China has reached 17.31 million, accounting for 1.26% of the total population Fortunately, due to the development of science and technology, congenital blindness has gradually decreased Vision diseases in China, including fundus diseases, maculopathy, amblyopia, and severe glaucoma or diabetes have become the main causes of blindness In addition, the aging population also promotes the rapid growth of people with visual impairment According to the survey of disease information of the visually impaired, 70% of the visually impaired need to be accompanied when they go out, while the other 30% choose not to go out This is also the reason why "although there are many blind people, it is difficult to see them on the road" The eye is an important source of information, and the damage caused by blindness is almost irreversible An Israeli company, orcam, didn't think about "how to save vision", but focused on "how to help people with visual impairment get information" Liang Weiyang, head of orcam China, said that the number of people with vision disorders in China has reached 17 million, 5 million of whom are blind In addition, every year about 400000 people's vision is deteriorating, from amblyopia to semi blindness or from semi blindness to full blindness The life content and activity scope of the visually impaired are severely limited Orcam uses artificial vision technology to integrate advanced devices into wearable devices, so as to improve the life of the visually impaired Orcam was founded in Israel in 2010 and is dedicated to the research and development of artificial intelligence visual aids In 2013, orcam's first generation orcam myeye 1.0 was successfully developed, and the next year, it received $15 million invested by Intel The first generation products have been successfully launched in the European and American markets As of December 2018, orcam has obtained 36 invention patents and US $130 million investment Orcam, now valued at $1 billion, is one of Israel's few Unicorn elite businesses Through continuous R & D and long-term exploration, orcam myeye 2.0 was officially launched in 2017 After years of market laying, orcam began to step into the Chinese market in early 2019 Read the information to the blind, orcam myeye 2.0 is rectangular in shape, with a weight of 22.5g and a built-in speaker It is a wireless artificial intelligence visual aid device The device has five functions: text recognition, face recognition, commodity recognition, color and time recognition Orcam myeye 2.0 (pictures provided by interviewees) orcam second generation products have advanced machine learning system, which adopts optical character recognition system with distinguishable character structure, can analyze visual input elements and capture printed or digital characters covered on any plane Orcam's camera is attached to the eyeglass frame through a magnet When the user looks at the text or other text carriers, the high-resolution camera and intelligent algorithm analyze the text or objects captured by the camera, convert the image into text in 1-2 seconds, and read it to the user through the built-in loudspeaker, so that the user can "read" newspapers, menus or books Speaker output dual channel stereo, free space acceptance range is more than 10 meters The device is currently available in more than 50 countries and supports more than 30 languages The database of the device can also store portrait The user presses the button to take a portrait and dictates the identity information of the other party When an object appears in the camera's field of view again, the device will inform the user of this person's identity In addition, this equipment can also identify the commodity classification through the commodity barcode, and now it can store 300 commodity details According to Liang Weiyang, orcam myeye 2.0 is a wearable artificial vision device that can be operated through gestures or vision When users with a little light sense use it, they can select Manual indication, and the camera shooting area is within 180 degrees with the finger as the origin Blind users can choose the button to take photos when they are unable to determine the immediate environment and objects, and the device will interpret one by one from far to near When the light is insufficient, the two LED lights provided by the device will also automatically supplement the light Orcammyeye 2.0 can be used continuously for 90 minutes In addition, the charging pile matched with the equipment is only the size of a lighter and can be carried with you The fully charged charging post can provide four times of charging for the equipment and can last for 6 hours It is worth mentioning that another computing feature of orcam myeye 2.0 is that users do not need to connect to the Internet when they use it Liang Weiyang introduced that the ID card, social security card, insurance policy and other text data belong to personal privacy items The design of non network, on the one hand, is to protect the privacy of patients, on the other hand, it can also avoid the impact of signal strength on the continuity and integrity of information received by users Orcammyeye 2.0 is attached to the eyeglass frame for use (the picture is provided by the interviewee) In addition, the myreader developed by orcam has all the portable functions of orcammyeye, but mainly focuses on reading It simplifies the device for users who may not need all the functions of orcammyeye "For the visually impaired, the waiting time is very slow, which also requires the feedback time and accuracy of product information identification." It's worth mentioning that orcam's founding team has excellent experience in computer vision technology Two of orcam's founders, Professor Amnon Sahua and Mr Ziv Aviram, were co founders of Mobileye, a global leader in automotive collision avoidance systems and an innovator of autonomous driving In 2017, Intel invested $15.3 billion to acquire Mobileye, becoming the largest high-tech start-up company in Israel so far, and the largest transaction in the field of automatic driving The same founding team and the same computer vision theory transferred to the application of human vision Mobileye uses camera and sensor technology and artificial intelligence algorithm to develop eyeq series vision system chip to solve the collision problem of vehicle assisted driving and automatic driving Based on the advanced computer vision interpretation ability, orcam has developed orcam myeye series products to solve the reading, shopping and work problems of blind or visually impaired people The orcam team has about 300 members, all over the world Among them, the technical team is about 220 "The technical team has laid a solid foundation for the performance of the product They have basically thought of the functions required by the user based application scenario." In the future, orcam may involve a certain range of indoor navigation Compared with developed countries, China's rehabilitation supplementary payment system has not been established Liang noted that in order to expand the market scale, orcam is looking for cooperation opportunities with medical institutions, financial service institutions, disabled persons' Federation and other institutions For institutions interested in the company, please contact Xiaoyun, financing assistant: dongmai_investent penicillin This article is the reprinted content of yaozhi.com The copyright belongs to the original author The purpose of reprinting is to transmit more information and does not represent the view of the platform If the content of the work, copyright and other issues are involved, please contact our website message, we will delete the content in the first time.