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The Visual Representation Of Sound For The Hearing Impaired, Jonathan Brophy
The Visual Representation Of Sound For The Hearing Impaired, Jonathan Brophy
Electrical Engineering
There are many difficulties that arise when one is faced with a hearing disability. New applications of advancing technology have the potential to enable designs capable of assisting the hearing impaired with the ability to see sound. This project seeks to provide a user with a visual representation of loud noises detected using small directional microphones. The microphones determine the location of the sound above a set decibel level and a microprocessor determines the approximate location of the sound source and displays a vertical colored bar on a video image in the direction of the noise using virtual reality glasses. …