NEC has released new image recognition services for smartphones and mobile terminals in Japan beginning June 1. The new service can provide detailed information on a wide range of subjects, including everything from food to automobiles that appear in photos taken with mobile devices.
NEC's new service meets this demand by utilizing the company's image recognition engine, featuring the world's highest level of recognition accuracy, to compare subjects from photos to image data registered on the cloud or on mobile terminals. Once a subject is recognized, detailed information about that subject can be displayed on a mobile device.
The use of this high speed, highly accurate image recognition system in combination with an image database enables businesses to quickly and easily provide their own customized image recognition applications for smartphones. Users of the service could take photos of a meal in order to have detailed information about the meal, including calories, ingredients and recipes, displayed on their mobile terminal.
