METHOD OF BLIND PERSON ORIENTATION AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING IT Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61F9/08 A61H3/06 G01C21/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to orientation systems and may be used in orientation systems for blind and visually impaired people. A method consists in the fact that a walking stick of a blind person is provided with a fork wheel and a GPS receiver wherein blind person's root data are preset; current position data are worked out, a mismatch signal of the current and preset position data is determined, and the walking stick is rolled in front. Besides, the walking stick is equipped with a fork turn drive and a drive control unit, the blind person's current position and preset rout data mismatch signal is supplied onto the drive control unit to follow the walking stick. A device consists of the walking stick with the fork and the wheel, comprising the mounted GPS receiver, and also provided with the fork turn drive. An output of the GPS receiver is connected with an input of the fork turn drive.

EFFECT: use of the invention enables facilitating blind person's orientation.

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