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11 April 2008
| The eye-Phone is a novel mobile phone programme able to provide information on what you see when you see it. It combines three of today's modern technologies: satellite navigation localisation services, advanced object recognition and relevant internet retrieved information. The system has been developed using Apollo technology, an innovative artificial intelligence piece of software that can carry out object recognition within images.
Credits: ESA / EyePhone | |  |  | |
| | | | | Ernst Pechtl presents the eyePhone at the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2007 press conference in Munich, Germany. The eye-Phone won the regional prize for Bavaria, Germany in the competition which has the aim to encourage small enterprises in participating European regions to come up with new ideas for satellite navigation applications. The competition is supported by ESA through its Technology Transfer Programme.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | The eye-Phone runs on mobile telephones and works like this: If you see something interesting while out walking for instance, you take a photograph with your mobile phone and select the item of interest with the cursor. The object selected is then recognised and transmitted with satellite navigation localisation data to a central system interfacing to databases on the internet to get information on the object. The information found is sent back to the phone and displayed to you. The eye-Phone won the regional prize for Bavaria, Germany in the 2007 European Satellite Navigation competition.
Credits: SuperWise Technologies | | | | |
| | | | Concept proved – prototype on the way
| Ernst Pechtl and Hans Geiger are co-owners of the German company SuperWise Technologies AG, which has developed the Apollo image-recognition system. Their invention, the eye-Phone, uses the Apollo software and was a regional winner in the European Satellite Navigation Competition. The competition is sponsored by ESA's Technology Transfer Programme.
Credits: SuperWise Technologies | | | | |
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| | Related links ESA's Technology Transfer and Business IncubationSuperwise TechnologiesEuropean Satellite Navigation Competition 2007 winnersGalileo Masters, the European Satellite Navigation Competition
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