Low vision apparatus and device and method for enabling the visually handicapped to view television

摘要

There is disclosed a system for improving the visual field of a handicapped person which utilizes a wide angle lens which is placed in front of an object such as a screen of a television set to be viewed. This operates in conjunction with a prism to provide a reduced image of a size which is compatible with the field of view that the handicapped person experiences due to the use of an optical aid necessary to enable the handicapped person to see with resolution. The system and method according to this invention serves to enable such a person to view a reduced image such as the image of a television screen which reduction is implemented to be of the size of the field of the optical aid that the person requires in order to see with any given resolution.