Patent ID: 7408465
Filing Date: 2008-08-05
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
1. A method of using RFID systems to help blind and visually-impaired individuals function in society without canes and seeing-eye dogs comprising the steps of: affixing onto objects RFID tags, each RFID tag having tag information stored therein to help a blind or visually-impaired individual, the tag information including data for determining whether an object to which an RFID tag is affixed is of a life-threatening, safety-related or informational-related nature; enabling the blind or visually-impaired individual to create a profile, the profile for indicating a means of conveying the tag information to the blind or visually-impaired individual and containing instructions that certain tag information be not conveyed; and enabling the blind or visually-impaired individual to carry an RFID reader, the RFID reader for reading tag information from the RFID tags and for conveying the tag information to the individual in accordance with the indicated conveying means, wherein tag information of objects that are of a life-threatening or safety-related nature are conveyed in spite of not to convey instructions and wherein objects are classified by genus having at least two species such that tag information of a genus may be requested not to be conveyed except for a particular one of the two species of the genus.