By 2007, 800 million camera-phones are forecast to be in use worldwide (source IDC). In Japan today, each new cell phone sold has a built-in camera. The quality of camera-phones is constantly improving with recent models sporting 1 to 2 Mega pixels, optical zoom, built-in flash, etc. Camera phones are changing the definition of picture-worthy and soon everyone will have a quality digital camera embedded in their portable phone, wearing it all day long.

As more users capture and share cell phone images at low cost, the potential for new and innovative services opens up.  According to Nokia, 100 billion images will be captured with camera-phones in 2007.  If your company is participating in this market as a hardware manufacturer, a service provider, or a content supplier, piXlogic has the solution that will help you make the most of this opportunity.  piXlogic can help you bring advanced functionality to your customers such as:

• Quickly find personal photos
  As users take more and more pictures, with no tagging other than the date/time and GIS info, the need to quickly find previously uploaded images becomes crucial.  piXlogic software can help automatically categorize and suggest a caption to each image that reflects their own classification scheme.  piXlogic enables users to quickly find stored images through a simple and intuitive interface.

• Picture based translation services
  The piXlogic software text recognition capabilities can be very helpful in a multilingual environment.  For example: a traveler in a foreign land doesn't understand a local sign. He takes a picture of the sign and sends it over to a piXlogic-enabled service provider.  The software reads the text in the image,  which is then translated to the user's native language and returned to him (by text, image or voice).
   
• Shopping with an image
  Connect your magazine ads to your shopping website.  For example, your customer is reading your fashion magazine catalog and decides to use her cell phone to order a blouse. Instead of tediously punching in numbers and codes  she takes a picture of the item in the magazine and sends it your piXlogic-enabled web site.  The software understands and matches the contents of the ad to those in your product database and returns a direct link to the purchase page. No bar code required.

Advantages of piXlogic software:

• The ability to quickly and accurately characterize objects within an image without any prior knowledge of the content.
   
• The ability to search images quickly and provide a prioritized list of matches. thereby providing users a simple, interactive, and satisfying experience.

piXserve 1.5 is available now to turbo-charge e-mobile services.  It is robust, scaleable, and can support your most demanding server based applications.  The piXsearch 2.5 software development kit. provides you the added flexibility of fully customizing your implementation through a well documented API.  In addition, embedded applications are possible because the core piXsearch libraries are very compact.  piXsearch and piXserve give you the flexibility to implement server centric as well as client centric architectures.