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Images: Eyephone explains where you are

By Andy Smith April 11, 2008, 12:44 AM PDT

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You’re on vacation and see an interesting looking building and want to know more about it. With new technology, you can simply take a picture of it with your phone and the eyePhone program will recognize the location and give you details about it. EyePhone was a a regional winner in the European Satellite Navigation Competition, sponsored by the European Space Agency’s Technology Transfer Program.rnrn

EyePhone was developed by Ernst Pechtl and Hans Geiger, co-owners of SuperWise Technologies AG. SuperWise developed the basic image-recognition system called Apollo that makes eyePhone work.

Images: Eyephone explains where you are

To use iPhone, you focus on an interesting location.

Images: Eyephone explains where you are

EyePhone will recognize objects in the photo such as the two towers.

Images: Eyephone explains where you are

Select the object with your cursor.

Images: Eyephone explains where you are

Again, it gives the tourist a quick explanation of what they’re taking a picture of.

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