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Old 06-29-2009, 05:04 PM   #13
Flint
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Now they have decided we want the number of stars on the cover, and a little more information on the inside page.
Or, that's what they had time to make it do in order to get a 5 minute demo video ready for the TED conference. I'm making the assumption that we're capable of applying a little imagination here (i.e. what features could be programmed into such a device?) and you are proving me wrong.
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...I'm thinking it more likely that my phone can scan the UPC code than this device can flawlessly recognize a book cover.
And that is the crux of the technological hurdle here that they haven't explained:
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But they don't explain how the visual recognition engine works, i.e. how does this thing know who or what it is looking at?
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