Lost your way? Send a picture get a map

Posted on March 8, 2007
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Pretty nice idea although I still think that voice recognition should be the perfect inputting device …  But maybe in this special case taking a picture tells a thousand words.

… Lost in Seattle with nothing but a camera phone? Just snap a picture of a nearby building, send off the photo to a database and soon you’ll get back a map and information about where you are…

“When you are using a mobile phone, then inputting text can sometimes be difficult. So we decided to make the camera the input,” said Xing Xie, a Microsoft researcher who was demonstrating the technology.

The service is still being tested at Microsoft and releasing the product on a wide scale could prove challenging since the company would need databases full of pictures of buildings in every city. read on

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