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Google Goggles Solves Sudoku

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the better-it-than-me dept.

mikejuk writes "Ever been frustrated when you can't solve a Sudoku? Well, now there's an app for that. It is just one more capability in the latest version of Google Goggles. All you have to do is point your phone's camera at a Sudoku puzzle, take a snapshot, and pattern recognition and a bit of game logic sorts out the answer. Have you ever had the feeling that AI is getting to be just a little too commonplace?"

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  1. Just like "Sudoku Grab" on the iPhone has done for by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The developer of Sudoku Grab for the iPhone - which solves Sudokus via the camera - has a blog post explaining how he did this (in June 2009.)

    http://sudokugrab.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-does-it-all-work.html

  2. we hath defeated the purpose by tverbeek · · Score: 4, Insightful

    OK, it's cool technology, but this is almost as pointless as Homer Simpson's book of already-solved crossword puzzles.

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  3. it really works, its quite amazing by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    i had a meeting with my boss today and he gave me a list of new requirements for extending the inhouse app. i pointed my cell phone at my notes from the meeting, it snapped a picture of my poor handwriting and the list of new requirements, i sent the picture to google goggles, i went to lunch, and when i came back google goggles was busy writing jquery code and extending the xslt transforms we use. i may even get a raise. thanks google goggles

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  4. Re:Need more AI by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    Something makes me think that you don't really believe the quote in your signature.

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    which is totally what she said
  5. Re:solving Soduku by MancunianMaskMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    go get your coat and hand in your geek card at the door. The fun is in writing the program that solves the puzzle

  6. Re:Sudokus by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not even to do with numbers, it's just unique identifiers.

    You could do it with animals. 1 = cow, 2 = sheep, so one so forth. I like to do it with colours, red, blue, yellow, etc. You could do it with Letters, ABCD...

    There is no addition, subtraction, no real computation done with any of the numbers. The only rules are that there has to be 1 of every 9 symbol in each box and each row, and that rule will enforce the subsets that most other people apply (no two identical symbols in the same row or box).