{"id":483147,"date":"2010-03-28T18:48:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/looktel-object-recognition-system\/14637\/"},"modified":"2010-03-28T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T22:48:32","slug":"looktel-smartphone-system-tells-you-what-youre-looking-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/483147","title":{"rendered":"LookTel smartphone system tells you what you&#8217;re looking at"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/pictures\/hero\/looktel.jpg\" alt=\"LookTel sends an image captured using a smartphone camera to software on a PC which search...\"><\/p>\n<p>Shortly available for consumer beta, LookTel is a smartphone object recognition package which is intended to help the visually impaired correctly identify such things as money, CD titles, landmarks and so on. An image captured by the phone&#8217;s camera is sent to a PC which then quickly scans through a database and when a match is made, the result is returned to the phone and spoken to the user. Sighted user assist, a handy text-to-speech function and guided interface control also feature&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/object-recognition\/\" rel=\"tag\">Object Recognition<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/smartphone\/\" rel=\"tag\">Smartphone<\/a>,<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/tag\/text-to-speech\/\" rel=\"tag\">Text-to-Speech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Articles:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/nokia-community-smartphone\/14580\/\">Nokia invites community to phone design party<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lg-gw620-android-powered-smartphone\/12887\/\">LG announce the LG-GW620 Android powered smartphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/lg-expo-smartphone-pico-projector\/13493\/\">1GHz LG eXpo smartphone features snap on pico-projector<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/htc-boosts-gps-credentials-on-updated-touch-cruise-smartphone\/10806\/\">HTC boosts GPS credentials on updated Touch Cruise smartphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/samsung-jet\/11967\/\">Samsung jet &#8211; smartphone or not?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/synaptics-fuse\/13965\/\">Synaptics debuts Fuse next-generation mobile phone concept <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rfcpEumqaORbMBLocamOuSVIw68\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rfcpEumqaORbMBLocamOuSVIw68\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rfcpEumqaORbMBLocamOuSVIw68\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/rfcpEumqaORbMBLocamOuSVIw68\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=Vx2gqP1Wa7c:ibo1z4Bndq8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=Vx2gqP1Wa7c:ibo1z4Bndq8:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=Vx2gqP1Wa7c:ibo1z4Bndq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=Vx2gqP1Wa7c:ibo1z4Bndq8:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=Vx2gqP1Wa7c:ibo1z4Bndq8:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?i=Vx2gqP1Wa7c:ibo1z4Bndq8:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?a=Vx2gqP1Wa7c:ibo1z4Bndq8:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GizmagEmergingTechnologyMagazine\/~4\/Vx2gqP1Wa7c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly available for consumer beta, LookTel is a smartphone object recognition package which is intended to help the visually impaired correctly identify such things as money, CD titles, landmarks and so on. 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