Google I/O 2018: Google Lens Integrated Into Camera App, Gets Smart Text Selection, Style Match, and More

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I/O 2018:

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Lens Integrated Into Camera App, Gets Smart Text Selection, Style Match, and More

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Lens was unveiled at I/O last year as an image recognition tool that could provide contextual suggestions for objects that you scan with the camera. For instance, scanning a restaurant can show things like the menu, pricing, reservations, and timings. It is

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’s experimental, camera-powered search engine that combines search, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and computer vision. On May 8,

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announced the most significant update to

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Lens at this year’s developers conference. Apart from getting new features,

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Lens will no longer stay ******* inside

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is now merging the feature into the native camera apps in some smartphones.

Aparna Chennapragada, Vice President of Product for AR, VR, and Vision-based products,

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, demoed three new features available with the new

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Lens at

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I/O 2018 keynote. First up, is smart text selection that connects the words you see with the answers and actions you need. This essentially means users can copy and paste text from the real world, such as recipes, gift card codes, or Wi-Fi passwords, directly to their smartphone.

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Lens, in turn, helps in making sense of a page of words by showing relevant information and images.

 

For instance, if you are at a restaurant and you don’t identify the name of a particular dish, Lens will be able to show you an image to give you a better idea.

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is leveraging its years of language understanding in Search help to recognise the shapes of letters as well as the meaning and context of the words.

Next up is a discovery feature called style match, similar to a Pinterest-like fashion search option. With the new feature, you can just point the camera at an item of clothing, such as a shirt or a handbag, and Lens will search for items that match that piece’s style.

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is able to achieve this by running searches through millions of items, but also by understanding things like different textures, shapes, angles and lighting conditions, Chennapragada explained at the event.

Lastly,

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Lens now works in real time. It can now proactively surface information instantly and anchor it to the things you see. You will be able to browse the world around you by pointing your camera. This is possible because of the advances in machine learning, using both on-device intelligence and cloud TPUs, allowing Lens to identify billions of words, phrases, places, and objects in a split second,

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It can also display the results of what it finds on top of things like storefronts, street signs or concert posters. With

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Lens, “the camera is not just answering questions, but putting the answers right where the questions are,” noted Aparna Chennapragada.

As for integration in the native camera apps of smartphones, Chennapragada said that starting in the next few weeks,

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Lens will be integrated inside the camera app for

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Pixel, and smartphones from other manufacturers such as LG, Motorola, Xiaomi, Sony Mobile, HMD Global/ Nokia, Transsion, TCL, OnePlus, BQ, and Asus.

Also notable is that Chennapragada, ahead of the several new additions for

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Lens, demonstrated a clever way

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is using the camera and

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Maps together to help people better navigate around their city with AR Mode. The maps integration combines the camera, computer vision technology, and

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Maps with Street View.

 

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