Patent ID: 6862074

Claim:
A portable, foldable device to photograph pages of a book as part of a portable book reading machine for blind people, said device comprising: a frame having two transparent plates with a common pivot edge of the frame constituting an angle between the two transparent plates of about 60 and 120 degrees to hold the book sitting on top of said frame with two adjacent pages being applied against an external surface of said frame, a first mirror positioned in a middle of the angle defined by said plates in a first position and said first mirror being folded against one of said two plates in a second position, a second mirror having an edge close to a free edge of one of said transparent plates and pivoted with respect to said one transparent plate to constitute an angle comprised between about 60 and 30 degrees with said one transparent plate, said second mirror extending perpendicular to said first mirror when said first mirror is in said first position, and a photographic camera positioned near the edge of the one transparent plate close to said second mirror and said photographic camera being carried by the one transparent plate with an optical axis of the camera extending perpendicular to the one transparent plate carrying the camera and being aimed by successive reflections on said second mirror and then said first mirror at the page of a book placed against the one transparent plate carrying the camera, and by reflection only on said second mirror at the page of the book placed against the other transparent plate when said first mirror is in the second position.