Title :
Translation camera on mobile phone
Author :
Watanabe, Yasuhiko ; Sono, Kazuya ; Yokomizo, Kazuya ; Okada, Yoshihiro
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Informatics, Ryukoku Univ., Shiga, Japan
Abstract :
In this paper, we report a mobile application, which translates Japanese texts in a scene into English. The application is designed to run on a mobile phone with a camera. It recognizes Japanese characters sensed by an onboard camera of a mobile phone and translates them into English.
Keywords :
cameras; image sensors; language translation; mobile handsets; English language; Japanese characters; Japanese texts; mobile phone; onboard camera; translation camera; Cameras; Character recognition; Global Positioning System; Image recognition; Informatics; Internet; Layout; Mobile handsets; SONOS devices; Text recognition;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2003. ICME '03. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7965-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2003.1221582
