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Program for reading by flashing changing words appeared recently.
http://www.spritzinc.com/
I wrote a really simple version for reading *. txt files.
There are certainly people who can do it better and maybe it inspires them. :wink:

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Some more details:

http://www.spritzinc.com/faq/
What is spritzing?
Spritzing is reading text with Spritz Inc.’s patent-pending technology.
When you’re spritzing, you’re reading text one word at a time in our “redicle,” a special visual frame we designed for reading.
- SPRITZ TECHNOLOGY LLC Patent applications:
--- Patent application title: SERIAL TEXT DISPLAY FOR OPTIMAL RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD
Patent application title: SERIAL TEXT DISPLAY FOR OPTIMAL RECOGNITION APPARATUS AND METHOD

Inventors: Maik Steffen Maurer (Ismaning, DE) Matthias Klein (Otterfing, DE) Francis Abbott Waldman (Stoneham, MA, US)
Assignees: SPRITZ TECHNOLOGY LLC
IPC8 Class: AG06K918FI
USPC Class: 382182
Class name: Image analysis pattern recognition limited to specially coded, human-readable characters
Publication date: 2014-01-16
Patent application number: 20140016867
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Danilo wrote: Spritzing is reading text with Spritz Inc.’s patent-pending technology.
When you’re spritzing, you’re reading text one word at a time in our “redicle,” a special visual frame we designed for reading.
I am firmly convinced that my pun not violate the patent rights of third parties. But for sure, I removed the code.
Each user of the forum can certainly write your own code within half an hour. :D
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funny I remember implementing this display method in the prototype for humanwares my reader video magnifier
back in 2002

https://www.humanware.com/en-australia/ ... ifier.html
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Lubos wrote:
Danilo wrote: Spritzing is reading text with Spritz Inc.’s patent-pending technology.
When you’re spritzing, you’re reading text one word at a time in our “redicle,” a special visual frame we designed for reading.
I am firmly convinced that my pun not violate the patent rights of third parties. But for sure, I removed the code.
Each user of the forum can certainly write your own code within half an hour. :D
Unless you somehow copied his "patent pending technology", which I seriously doubt is a PureBasic program, you're OK.
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