Patent ID: 8606316

Claim:
A blind aid device, comprising: an image capturing module, said image capturing module capturing one or more images related to a user's surrounding environment; an image analysis module in operable communication with the image capturing module, the image analysis module configured to (i) detect moving objects from the one or more images captured, (ii) identify a finite number of spatial relationships related to the moving objects, (iii) classify the finite number of spatial relationships related to the moving objects with predefined moving object data to obtain select spatial relationship information and (iv) perform facial recognition on said one or more images captured containing a person; a configuration module configured to allow user selection of events that are actionable and corresponding responses for each of said actionable events; a training module configured to identify, utilizing said finite number of spatial relationships, said actionable events in said user's surrounding environment; a conversion module configured to convert the select spatial relationship information and actionable events into audible information; and a communication module for relaying the audible information to the user.