"Camera Dictionary" to translate English words when holding the cell phone camera

It might be quite useful if you use it instead of a little dictionary.

An application that captures English words using the au cell phone camera as an input device and displays translation results of English words. Since English words are automatically recognized from camera images of mobile phones, manual input is unnecessary.

If you do character input with the camera, it will be comfortable certainly because English word mistakes will disappear.

Details are as follows.
Start offering mobile application "Camera Dictionary" to translate English words by simply holding the cell phone camera!: PDF file

By constantly checking the entered character information with the English word dictionary database held for each character, high recognition accuracy is secured. It also possesses a linkage function to the website, and by utilizing this, it is possible to confirm more detailed meaning, examples, pronunciation etc of English words on the site.

Monthly fee is 105 yen per month, service start date and time is August 31, 2006. Access method is "EZ Top Menu" → "Search by Category" → "Dictionary · Useful Tools" → "Dictionary · Dictionary" → "Integrated English Dictionary".

It may be interesting if ordinary digital cameras also have this function.