09-03-2003, 09:00 PM
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Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 15,171
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iPAQ + Camera = Sign Translation
HP has developed a prototype solution based on an iPAQ, a WiFi connection, and a CF camera that can automatically translate signs if you just point the solution at it. It's obviously not ready for primetime, but this may be a cool harbinger of things to come if you could use something like a Smartphone or a Pocket PC Phone with a built-in camera to accomplish the same effect.
"Dr Howard Taub, Director of the Printing and Imaging Research Centre at HP labs in Paolo Alto in California let Go Digital, the BBC World Service radio programme, try out their sign recognition and translation system. The idea is that by using a wireless connection to the internet, the device can be a handy camera which makes use of translation resources on the net."
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09-03-2003, 09:09 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 248
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Damn HP, I want that friggin' driver to use the HP Pocket Camera in my iPAQ like I see in the photo!
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09-03-2003, 09:31 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 153
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According to my friend 'Merci', must mean 'garbage can', in French, since Merci is printed on all garbage can swinging lid across Quebec train stations.
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09-03-2003, 09:36 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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I am going to link back to the thread I started on it. Moderators might want to lock it. I need to start reporting news to you guys. This is the second time I'd seen somthing and not contributed. I'll nab a front-page post some day  .
P.S. I read about this in a Pocket PC Mag about a year ago.
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09-03-2003, 09:40 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 44
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I've got a conceptual problem with this story:
Camera = jpeg image
Therefore some kind (?) of OCR software
Then (mis)translation
Is that sign To Let or Toilet??
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09-03-2003, 10:10 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Originally Posted by dean_shan
I am going to link back to the thread I started on it. Moderators might want to lock it. I need to start reporting news to you guys. This is the second time I'd seen somthing and not contributed. I'll nab a front-page post some day . P.S. I read about this in a Pocket PC Mag about a year ago. |
Yes, please do submit news to the news@ alias - it's much better to focus the discussions, and there's usually more activity around the front page posts.
We posted on something similar to this last year too, which is probably what you saw in Pocket PC Magazine.
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09-03-2003, 10:31 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 541
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There was a researcher from IBM at my school who had this, using the HP Pocket Camera and a Casio PPC. He used it to translate a Chinese sign. Very cool stuff.
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09-03-2003, 10:38 PM
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Editorial Contributor
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 5,411
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Originally Posted by Marc Zimmermann
Damn HP, I want that friggin' driver to use the HP Pocket Camera in my iPAQ like I see in the photo!
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No kiddin. Ticks me off that we HP PPC owners can't use the HP camera. Even more so now that HP is all goofy about their new SDIO camera. Funny that I took a moment to contribute to the 'tell Carly' link on the support site about the lack of HP support for HP products, just last night.
I actually have had the HP camera working on a Dell, using the HP driver .dll and MS Portrait as the viewing app. Didn't work under WM2003 though. Rats.
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09-04-2003, 12:55 AM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 555
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"&^%#!@)(^&$%"
- hmm...I wonder what that says?
<whips out Ipaq and activates the "solution"
"Do not operate computers in this environment or be persecuted"
- oh dear....
:lol:
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09-04-2003, 01:17 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 2,017
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Doh. Now mall/department store management have decent reason to start banning PPCs on their premises (no cameras please) 
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