Apple is working on powerful pattern recognition to identify elements in images captured by your iOS camera system, according to patent filing spotted by Patently Apple.
The site notes that this system would be able to recognize face, phone number, movie, book, prices, time, music, email, map, or bar code related elements.
The advanced camera system will be able to read IBSN numbers, pricing symbols, phone numbers and much more – all in context. For instance, you'll be able to scan a poster of a movie as noted in our cover graphic. From that you'll be able to scan faces and be given contextual menu options pertaining to that face or scan a phone number and be given the option to put it into your contact information or touch the photo of the movie image and call up a movie trailer or access to show times and other relevant information. You'll be able to scan a URL off of a magazine and then touch the URL on the image on your iPad and be given the option to activate the URL.
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James - April 6, 2012 at 3:31pm
Want to sell a ton of iphone 5's (or 6's or new ip's) then make the damn thing waterproof. That would be sick.
this is kind of neat. Though it'd be fine enough to just be an app not needed in iOS integration.
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Little Late - April 6, 2012 at 2:26pm
Google goggles did this a long time ago.
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farpthor - April 5, 2012 at 8:43pm
Just a patent doesn't prove that they are actually working on it. As far as this patent war goes, it could very well be just a placeholder of some sort, IMO.
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