Patent ID: 7949245

Claim:
A device comprising: an image input device comprising: a lens; a first polarizer disposed over the lens the first polarizer having a perimeter a contour of which is configured to orientate and align the polarizer to the lens; a flash; and a second polarizer disposed over the flash, the second polarizer having a perimeter a contour of which is configured to orientate and align the polarizer to the flash and in an orthogonal polarization relative to the polarization of the first polarizer on the lens; a pouch that houses the input device with the polarizers carried in respective windows of the pouch and with the respective widows aligned with the lens and flash respectively; a computing device coupled to the image input device for capturing images, the computing device, comprising: a processor to execute instructions; and a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for causing the processor to: process the captured images; recognize features in the captured images to determine a presence of text in the captured image; recognize the text present in the captured image and produce text; and convert the recognized text to speech using text-to-speech software.