Turns out,Googlecreated some seriously nifty infrared camera technology that detects the three-dimensional shape and angle of book pages when the book is placed in the scanner. This information is transmitted to the OCR software,...
How isGooglescanning thousands of books for its book search product? Of course, the company has developed a wonky, proprietary scanning method, and has patented it. That\'s patent 7508978,"Detection of grooves in scanned images,"...
When I first saw the news thatGooglewas being sued for use of the Android name I dismissed it thinking another guy was trying to get rich for free. Afterall,
TOKYO— WhenGoogleEarth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn\'t expect a backlash. The finely detailed woodblock prints have been around for centuries, they were already posted on...