While the public decides how to deal with Google Glass-wearing cyborgs walking among us, there are already startups trying to add facial recognition to the device.
But I am looking for a more intuitive device that will use face-recognition technology to track my ever move with the camera.
The tiny device used a simplified form of handwriting recognition to let busy executives jot down important notes and telephone numbers.
They let consumers snap a picture of whatever they are interested in, be it a can of Coke or a Louis Vuitton bag, with any visual recognition app on their mobile device and interact with the brand in real time.
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The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
We also offer a complete line of desktop, server, mobile and cloud technologies that bring document recognition and data capture solutions to any device.
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The camera can also be used to lock and unlock the tablet thanks to face recognition, enhancing the security of the device and making it truly yours.
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The system uses Microsoft's voice recognition technology and lets drivers tell the device what music they would like to listen to or who they would like to call on the phone.
The earSmart eS515 Smart Sound Processor combines the company's award-winning Advanced Voice processing technology with its first high-performance, low-power audio codec for a best in class voice, speech recognition and multimedia experience on a mobile device.
Making the processing of the voice recognition a function of the hardware of the device, makes that aspect of the application asynchronous with the actual database query.
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Since the ARCHOS GamePad is effectively a portable gaming device and tablet hybrid, the company created a patented game recognition and mapping tool so that any game available on the Google Play store can be played using the GamePad.
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The handheld device, called MelaFind, would use bursts of light and pattern recognition software to help physicians better decide which moles are so dangerous looking they must be immediately removed so that a biopsy can be done.
These APIs enable the recognition of music from text lookups, CDs, digital files and audio captured with a mobile device, and returns descriptive metadata for more than 2, 000 music genres and sub-genres, artist origins, and more than 100 music moods.
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It's not about the watch form factor, but creating a wearable mobile device that takes advantage of advances in mobile computing technology such as cheap sensors, better battery life and improved voice recognition.
Besides doing away with the need to use fiddly controls on handheld computers, mobile phones and music players, a speech-recognition chip would have other uses too: it could form the basis of a powerful, portable interpreting device, for example, or allow car drivers to change radio stations or operate navigation systems by speech alone.
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