HAND-HELD BRAILLE TRANSLITERATOR, BRAILLE TRANSLITERATION METHOD, BRAILLE TRANSLITERATION PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

A hand-held Braille transliterator comprises a Braille indication portion, an image pickup device, a letter recognition means, a Braille transliteration means, and an indication control means, and this one Braille transliterator performs all operations from the reading of characters to the outputting of Braille characters. The size of the hand-held Braille transliterator is such that it can be held in one hand. The Braille indication portion has a plurality of unit Braille character indication portions, each corresponding to one Braille character and having a plurality of movable members. The indication control means indicates whether or not the hand-held Braille transliterator is in agreement, in the positional relationship, with the characters or character strings present in a captured image, by moving the movable members of a part of the unit Braille character indication portions. The indication control means indicates the Braille characters by moving the movable members of other unit Braille character indication portions.