Robots reading cereal boxes in the supermarket? Googlebot at the art museum? Street signs and building addresses snatched from Street View images for local search, image search, and product search?
Three new patent applications published at the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office this week explore the intricacies of reading text in images taken from Google's Street View project, and explore some interesting steps beyond those. I described a number of the implications behind the patent filings in an SEO by the Sea post from last night: Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Store Shelves, and Museum Interiors.
Let's take a slightly different look.
Robots reading cereal boxes in the supermarket? Googlebot at the art museum? Street signs and building addresses snatched from Street View images for local search, image search, and product search?
Three new patent applications published at the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office this week explore the intricacies of reading text in images taken from Google’s Street View project, and explore some interesting steps beyond those. I described a number of the implications behind the patent filings in an SEO by the Sea post from last night: Google on Reading Text in Images from Street Views, Store Shelves, and Museum Interiors.
Let’s take a slightly different look.
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