Eyeglasses have the ability to automatically translate

At the CEATEC 2013 High Tech Expo held in suburban Tokyo, Japan's NTT Docomo mobile telecommunication service provider introduced a camera-mountable camera with a variety of animal applications. It's like displaying information about the person you met through the face recognition system; The most prominent feature is the ability to automatically translate Japanese words into English or some other foreign language.

An NTT employee showed the use of a translucent glass. (Photo: Reuters)

NTT DoCoMo's products help solve one of the great difficulties of foreign visitors to Japan, which is to read Japanese menus in restaurants. Using this glass, customers will still see the menu page but have been translated from Japanese to English.

The face recognition system of the glasses also allows for information about the opposite person has encountered such as name, age, address, position ... In addition, with the ability to recognize the finger movement through a ring on the user's index finger, then transmitted via a smartphone comes to translate into specific operating commands, this type of glasses also allows customers to control the image on the screen of the eye Glasses on any surface such as notebook, wallet ...

There are still a number of technical limitations that need to be addressed, such as the size of the glass, the power source, the sensitivity in image recognition and the response time, but NTT Docomo claims that the product will be perfected and launched. market on the occasion of the Tokyo Olympics 2020.