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Image Recognition on Mobile Phones

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday July 31, 2006 @11:27PM from the what-phore dept.

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'"

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Nothing new by kisielk · 2006-08-01 01:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

Phones here in Japan have had this technology for quite some time, using square bar codes that can encode way more information than the typical barcodes in North America. I can scan them with my phone and get a URL or other information...