LucSens http://www.lucsens.com LucSens uses computer vision allowing you to instantly translate Chinese and Japanese to English with your mobile device Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:12:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Google Translate option on Goggles will no longer give translations http://www.lucsens.com/google-translate-option-on-goggles-will-no-longer-give-translations/ http://www.lucsens.com/google-translate-option-on-goggles-will-no-longer-give-translations/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:10:59 +0000 admin http://www.lucsens.com/?p=593 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> As of December 1, 2011 the Google Translate option in Japan Goggles and China Goggles will no longer give translations. This is due to a decision by Goggle to completely shut off the free translation service to all third party applications on that date.

You can read more about it at:

http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html

Naturally, their decision caused quite a reaction from the developer community as you can see at:

http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html

Fortunately, the Goggles’ built-in dictionary will remain perfectly functional. With more than 100 000 entries for each app, the Goggles should work well in most cases. Besides, there is no longer a need for the Goggles to access the Internet which may be useful if you are on an expensive data plan.

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]]> http://www.lucsens.com/google-translate-option-on-goggles-will-no-longer-give-translations/feed/ 0 How to get better results with the Goggles http://www.lucsens.com/how-to-get-better-results-with-the-goggles/ http://www.lucsens.com/how-to-get-better-results-with-the-goggles/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:51:50 +0000 admin http://www.lucsens.com/?p=543 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Sometimes you can recognize text easier with your Japan Goggles or China Goggles just by trying these simple tricks:

Use the zoom in button

When in live camera mode trying to read some small print text in Japanese or Chinese, getting your iPhone closer to the paper won’t help – the iPhone camera just can’t focus at small distances. Better keep a reasonable distance, and when the image is focused use the zoom in button to make the relevant portion of the text larger.

Turn on the lights

If it’s too dark in the room, the text on the paper might not be clear enough. If you have trouble distinguishing the characters, so do the Goggles.

Crop it right

Make sure you use the cropper properly, so you don’t include unnecessary lines or shadows. If there are other high-contrast elements in the crop area, besides the characters you want to read, they could be misinterpreted.

Refresh less often

Are you in live camera mode, and the Japanese or Chinese text you are trying to get recognized keeps on changing? That’s because the image is moving, and you probably have a refresh rate that’s too high. Just go to the Settings screen in your Goggles and choose a lower refresh rate (like 2 or 5 seconds). You can also choose “none” – to get to refresh at all. Then you’ll need to tap the screen whenever you want to recognize text.

Analyze

Don’t forget the Analyze button! Some Asian characters can be pretty similar, so maybe Goggles’ best guess wasn’t the right character this time. If you got a wrong character, try the Analyze function – you’ll get the option of choosing a better match.

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]]> http://www.lucsens.com/how-to-get-better-results-with-the-goggles/feed/ 0 China Goggles available for download on App Store http://www.lucsens.com/china-goggles-available-for-free-download-on-app-store/ http://www.lucsens.com/china-goggles-available-for-free-download-on-app-store/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:00:47 +0000 admin http://www.lucsens.com/?p=485 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 01.12.2010 – After hearing many requests for a Chinese version of Japan Goggles we have delivered. China Goggles, the revolutionary Augmented Reality Chinese dictionary is finally available for download on App Store. We’re very interested what you think about it and we’re keeping our ears open to any comments or suggestions.

Download now!

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]]> http://www.lucsens.com/china-goggles-available-for-free-download-on-app-store/feed/ 0 Japan Goggles vs. Lost in Japan http://www.lucsens.com/japan-goggles-vs-lost-in-japan/ http://www.lucsens.com/japan-goggles-vs-lost-in-japan/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 09:43:24 +0000 admin http://www.lucsens.com/?p=477 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Lost in Japan was the World’s First Japanese character reader for iPhone. It was launched in May 2010 and quickly became popular. However, this app was limited to one character only so.

The main difference between Lost in Japan and Japan Goggles is the number of charcaters each app ca recognize.
With Lost in Japan, you take a photo on onle one character and get it’s meaning. Japan Goggles is a swiss army knife for anyone serious about looking up Japanese words. It can input several words at a time, from three input modes: live camera, still photo and album. Japan Goggles displays both the reading and meaning of the selected word and even can pass the recognized text to Google Translate.

Basically, Lost in Japan is like an apetizer while Japan Goggles is more like a four course meal!

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]]> http://www.lucsens.com/japan-goggles-vs-lost-in-japan/feed/ 0 Japan Goggles available for download on App Store http://www.lucsens.com/japan-goggles-live-on-app-store/ http://www.lucsens.com/japan-goggles-live-on-app-store/#comments Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:15:29 +0000 admin http://www.lucsens.com/?p=321 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 19.11.2010 – Japan Goggles, the ground-breaking augmented reality Japanese reader officially available on app store. The moment you’re all waiting for!
For the first time in history, you can actually read Japanese using your iPhone. Japan Goggles can translate Japanese text live when you hold up the phone to the text.
You can also take a photo a of alrge billboard, walk away and look up each word while on the train with the amazing photo reader! Have an old photograph of a Japanese menu with the food you would love to eat again? No problem, bring up any photo from your album and analize it word by word with Japan Goggles.

Download: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/japan-goggles/id397724055?mt=8

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]]> http://www.lucsens.com/japan-goggles-live-on-app-store/feed/ 0 Lost in Japan launched at demo day, Aalto Venture Garage http://www.lucsens.com/lost-in-japan-launched-at-aalto/ http://www.lucsens.com/lost-in-japan-launched-at-aalto/#comments Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:09:29 +0000 admin http://www.lucsens.com/?p=314 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> 18.03.2010 – Aalto University Entrepreneurship Society had recently created a new business incubator of Aalto University spin-offs called Venure Garage.

LucSens has launched it’s revolutionary photo dictionary “Lost in Japan” with a live demo and presentation at Aalto Venture Garage, one of Finland’s premiere business incubators. The Demo Day was the graduation ceremony of the Boot Camp, an exclusive business acceleration programme. LucSens has been among the few Finnish technology start-up selected to attend the Boot Camp.

The amazing LucSens stand brough overwhelming praise. Present at the event were a number of high-profile Finnish venture capitalists.

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