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PHOTOELECTRIC SIGNALLING DEVICE [1 record]

Record 1 2006-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Technical Aids for Persons with Disabilities
  • Photoelectricity and Electron Optics
OBS

An electronic apparatus designed to give a blind person information about simple visual indications concerning the objects and phenomena around him. The information is given by changing the light signals entering the apparatus into sound or tactile signals perceptible by the blind person.

Key term(s)
  • photoelectric signalling device

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aides techniques pour personnes handicapées
  • Photo-électricité et optique électronique
OBS

Appareil électronique destiné à la transmission aux aveugles d'informations sur les signaux visuels élémentaires des objets et phénomènes qui les entourent. Les signaux lumineux entrant dans l'appareil sont transformés en signaux sonores ou tactiles perceptibles par l'aveugle.

OBS

photoélectrique : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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