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Friday, January 4. 2008

Google Patent Application: Recognizing Text In Images

The two fellows behind the patent have worked on Book Search, StreetView and semantic tagging for YouTube videos and the sense is that the patent will allow text searching in those StreetView images as well as in videos. The application filed with World Intellectual Property Organization is here.

Google notes that it files patents all the time and only some turn into products and warns that we should not jumpt to conclusions about new products. That said, the patent app describes how such a tool might be used to advertise a McDonalds or provide a tour (with detailed information) about grocery store shelves.

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Patents at 07:12 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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Why didn't this happen 5 years ago? I'm shocked no one has yet filed such a patent. The military has got to have some kinda OCR software in their HMD's... or is this "Text" application specific to consumer software? WTF?

Do you mean to tell me cars can't read street signs yet? It's 2008, what has slowed innovation in creative technology ideas? I just can't believe this hasn't been done already.

Hanson robotics can remember faces...

Don't make me wait another 10 years for 3d video algorithms! (extracting 3d information from youtube and other video sources)
Or maybe I should file that RIGHT NOW.

HEY. PROOF OF CONCEPT January 07- 2008 RR
#1 Ray Rolfe on 2008-01-07 13:54 (Reply)

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