Image Recognition on Mobile Phones

mysticalgremlin writes "In a recent presentation, Semacode founder Simon Woodside presents his company's bar code scanning technology that is used in mobile phones. Simon also discusses many places where bar code scanning powered phones are being used. Not bad for an 'image recognizer for a 100 MHz mobile phone processor with 1 MB heap, 320x240 image, on a poorly-optimized Java stack'"

Comments

Bar code?

[RedOregon]

And here I thought a bar code was a hand signal you used to let everyone in a large crowd, in a noisy bar, know where you were going next.

Like standing up and holding up five fingers to let everyone know the next bar is the "Five Spot".

Oh well, live and learn.

Re:Bar code scanning powered phones?

[SnowZero]

Surely you mean "phone-powered bar code scanning", ie using the phone to scan bar codes, not powering the phone by scanning bar codes...

Perhaps the product is aimed toward use IN SOVIET RUSSIA?

Re:Other uses

[cnettel]

Fancy a set of scrabble-like plastic pieces, with additional barcode cues (barcode + distinct letter form would be easier than just the letter). Then you "set" your text message almost like on an old-style printing press, take a snapshot and voilà!

Coming next: Non-invasive optical punch card recognition. Preserve your valuable yellow-tinted records in pristine condition, while emulating your IBM from the 60s on the cellphone.

We understand...

[novus ordo]

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Hold your horses

[cerberusss]

Please hold downloading the mpeg with the talk until I finish. I'll reply to this message when wget returns my prompt. Thanks.

Re:Hold your horses

[cerberusss]

Obviously, the web server does not run on the mobile phone.