Video search makes phone a 'second pair of eyes'


	Video search makes phone a 'second pair of eyes'

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10-29-2007 2:45 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/83590372-f691-4225-ad12-05063d98a419/DE4B2939-86CC-43AE-B1A8-E15D1EA93EBE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html" href="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html" style="font-size: 11px;">technology.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html"><DIV id="artHeadline"><H4 class="inline">Video search makes phone a 'second pair of eyes'</H4><IMG class="artxicon" title="Contains video content" alt="Movie Camera" src="http://technology.newscientist.com/decorator/img/misc/artx_video.gif" />
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html"><P>Video-equipped cellphones could soon offer simple way to find useful information about the surrounding world.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html"><P>Currently, the best way to use a cellphone to find information about, for example, a product or an ad on a wall is by entering an internet search query with the keypad. Soon, however, it may be easier to simply record a video clip of an item of interest and have your phone tell you about it instead.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html"><P>Researchers at <A target="ns" href="http://www.accenture.com/Global/Services/Accenture_Technology_Labs/default.htm">Accenture Technology Labs</A> in France have developed technology that makes this possible using any ordinary 3G cellphone equipped with a video camera.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html"><P>The prototype system, dubbed the Pocket Supercomputer, offers a simple way to seek out useful, hard-to-find information, says <A target="ns" href="http://www.accenture.com/Global/Services/Accenture_Technology_Labs/R_and_I/FredrikLinaker.htm">Fredrik Linaker</A> who led the system's development at Accenture.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PkqUjQj8H3M" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12831-video-search-makes-phone-a-second-pair-of-eyes.html"><DIV class="straptext">The system enables a 3G video cellphone to record an object and find out about it in an online database</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DE4B2939-86CC-43AE-B1A8-E15D1EA93EBE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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