Image by technabob.com By Aidan Strealy
Staff Writer NTT Docomo, a mobile phone operator company located in Japan, has recently been working on a seemingly futuristic piece of technology: glasses that can translate foreign text. Docomo is planning to release these new glasses sometime in 2020, which are going to be used at the Olympics, taking place in Tokyo. Docomo is designing these glasses to help people around when they visit Japan, and so far the glasses can translate all Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English languages in under five seconds. That’s a lot faster than what it takes to learn a language, by a long shot. The release date is of course, meant to be at the same time as the 2020 Olympics, since there will be a lot of eager customers dreading having to translate Japanese. This is how it works, according to Docomo’s official website: “First, Docomo’s translation app sends visual information recorded by the glasses’ camera to a server in the cloud. Then, it’s character recognition software reads the text, translates it, and then sends the translation back to the glasses viewfinder, which is then positioned right above the line of text being translated.” An additional feature that Docomo has installed in the program is a facial recognition system. “It works much like the translation system,” says Discovery news. “The camera first captures a picture of the person’s face you’re looking at. After the system recognizes the face, that person’s cloud-registered information will be displayed on the surface’s inner screen. After a period of time, the display on the inner screen will change to show a list of people viewed. An additional search option is to have the camera search for only English-speaking people.” However, the person’s information will only appear then if it matches the search criteria. As well as these features, Docomo is planning on installing new software that turns every flat surface into a virtual touchpad. A small ring will come with the product, and sends out a signal to the camera, which then displays the digital screen on the lens. This advanced piece of technology is eagerly awaited by many people, even if they don’t plan on going anywhere with them. These glasses may be one of the many reasons people flock to the Olympics this 2020; they won’t have to worry about hiring translators, they just will have to buy a pair of glasses! Comments are closed.
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