Company Google as informs ZDNet patents system of automatic recognition of inscriptions in digital photos. The corresponding application has been submitted to Management of the USA under patents and trade marks in June of the last year and published in the beginning of current month.

In the application behind number 20080002893 the so-called system ” recognition of the text on images ” (Recognizing text in images) is described. As inventors appear Hatch Vinsent and Адриан Альгес. The essence of a technique is reduced to the computer analysis of a digital photo or the image and the subsequent extraction of inscriptions in a text kind.

It is not excluded that the patented system will be applied with the purpose of automatic search of inscriptions on digital images in database Google and their additions as keywords to corresponding pictures. It will theoretically allow to raise relevance of the results which are given out by inquiries of users. Besides the new system can help at definition of district in which this or that picture has been made.

In company Google, however, while refuse to give any comments how the patented technology will be used. Representatives of the search giant mark only, that Google patents many development, some of which can find practical application, and others - are not present.

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Company Google has declared the start of new version Sky for the service Google Earth. The improved version as it is informed in the press release offers a wide spectrum of new opportunities: from updating the information on events in space up to historical cards of the star sky and virtual rounds on the farthest points of the Galaxy.

The new version of service includes following layers:

” Current events in viewing the star sky ” - a layer with constantly updated information on events occuring in a space such as flights of asteroids and comets (we shall remind, just now in the sky it is possible to observe Holmes’s comet);

” The selected observatories ” - a layer with the images which have been removed by satellites in different layers of an atmosphere, including x-ray, infra-red, ultra-violet and microwave pictures of the sky;

” Historical cards of the star sky ” - the layer includes ” cards of the sky of David Ramsy ” in which basis the figures of Italian engraver Giovanni Maria Kassini made by it in 1792 are put. These pictures help to understand, on representations of mankind about the sky eventually how many have changed. Here the user can find an art layer ” Constellations Gavely ” which is collected from 50 engravings of 1690 made by Yann Gevely.

The new version of service also includes podcasts about stars, galaxies, planets and forthcoming events in the sky, a layer ” the Review of the sky ” owing to which users can make virtual travel on 100 most interesting points in the sky; a layer ” the Star sky: community ” in which users worldwide spread the information on heavenly bodies and the phenomena.

Also API for Google Sky were started which will allow independent developers to build their own hybrid appendices, using constantly extending gallery Google Sky.

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Operational system Google Android as informs Linux Devices was possible to start on a number of really existing devices.

Company Google has officially presented platform Android in November of the 2007 year. Kernel Linux and components are put in a basis of OS Android with the open code and access to a platform will be given to the telecommunication companies and developers of devices according to license Apache. OS Android will move ahead in the market alliance Open Handset Alliance which structure now includes some tens companies.

About prototypes of gadgets on the basis of Android two months ago were already shown now in the Network there was an information that enthusiasts could load platform Google on some serially issued devices. So, for example, users have forced Android to function on a platform for developers Armadillo-500 of company Atmark-Techno. Besides with some restrictions of functionality Android it was possible to start on pocket computer Sharp SL-C760 and on Sharp C3000M.

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