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Camera Dictionary application that translates English words

4 September 2006 by axxxr
"Camera Dictionary" (Kamera Jiten), which translates English words into Japanese by simply scanning the mobile phone’s camera over the word.

"Camera Dictionary" is an application that uses the mobile phone camera as an input device to capture English words and instantly displays the translation results.

A normal electronic dictionary requires the user to use a keyboard as the input device but "Camera Dictionary" automatically recognizes words from images taken by the camera as it is scanned.

This instant form of input is faster and smoother while spelling mistakes are avoided.

The characters of a word are read by the camera and are matched to the dictionary database in real-time ensuring that dictionary lookup is both fast and accurate.

Also included is a client server facility where the user can access more detailed information such as explanations, examples, pronounciation sound files, etc from the main online dictionary, Sougoeigojiten. www.mediaseek.co.jp





Comments
On 6 Sep 12:42 Perhapstruespelcanhe wrote
Truespel is a simple phonetic notation presently applied to USA English. A converter is available to change traditionally spelled English words into truespel phonetics. This more accurately represents spoken USA English than any other dictionary key. See the internet is converted to truespel at truespel.com.

Tom Zurinskas
creator of truespel
On 5 Sep 16:48 energetic wrote
Very clever!
On 5 Sep 08:48 mukunga wrote
work of geneous

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