Google looks to patent technology that recognizes text in images
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Google has applied for a patent for methods and technology that can be used to find and extract text from images.
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University of California scientists use a Google widget to improve automatic image cataloging in large collections like the Library of Congress. It'll add "common sense" to computers' ability to recognize objects in photographs, by adding a semantic context to object recognition.
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Web giant Google Inc  is  developing televisions that display Internet content such as  photos and videos together with Matsushita Electric Industrial  Co Ltd's  Panasonic unit.
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Google has officially joined the race to come up with a way to search videos and TV shows. In addition to a search technology for Internet-based video content, Google is also working with TV and cable broadcasters
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Google has released a tool that lets people search documents, e-mails or spreadsheets stored on a PC.
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New technologies can find faces or products without text tags by creating 3-D models and digital signatures. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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Google Inc. is paying The Associated Press for stories and photographs, settling a dispute with a major provider of the copyright news that the online search engine finds and displays on its popular Web site.
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A 3D hologram technique could transform how experts spot forged signatures and other handwritten documents.
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Online search engine leader Google Inc. is setting out make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the Web.
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Psychiatric help and vegetables included Google owes its success to putting advertising into parts of our lives where no one has ever put adverts before. Now a new patent illustrates the extent of its ambitions.â¦
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Google can recognize certain types of numbers and codes typed into its search box and save you a step in your quest.
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Google responded on Friday to a lawsuit filed against it by Northeastern University, denying claims that its search service infringes on patented technology.Google denied all charges in the suit, which was&#160;filed jointly by Northeastern, of Boston, and a search technology company called Jarg, of Waltham, Mass. Google also filed a counterclaim asking the court to dismiss the patent as invalid.The&#160;suit was filed in November&#160;in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. It seeks an injunction preventing Google from further infringement, as well as royalty payments and damages.The patent in question describes a distributed database system that breaks queries into fragments and distributes them to multiple computers in a network to get faster search results.The plaintiffs say that Google uses this system to run its search engine, and that the system was invented by Kenneth Baclawski, an associate professor at Northeastern and one of Jarg&#39;s founders. Northeastern was awarded a patent for the system, which it has licensed exclusively to Jarg.In its response Friday, Google argued that the patent is invalid and should not have been awarded in the first place. It cites various sections of U.S. patent law, including those that deal with the novelty of an invention and prior art. It also cites the doctrine of &quot;laches,&quot; which essentially requires plaintiffs to file lawsuits in a timely manner.Its counterclaim asks the court to declare the patent invalid and unenforceable.Both parties have requested a jury trial, and legal experts have said the case could be resolved in 18 months to two years.The U.S. patent, number 5,694,593, is dated Dec. 2, 1997, and can be viewed by searching the Web site of the U.S. Patent &amp; Trademark Office. U.S. patent law is also described on the USPTO Web site in this PDF file. Google&#39;s reply cites sections 101, 102, 103, and 112.
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Text messaging users can use Google SMS to get specific search information such as prices, definitions, area codes, ZIP codes and phone listings.
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Google has invested in automatic translation as a way to improve search results across various languages.
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Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know.
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Google Inc. last week filed a patent for technology that would allow users to make payments using text messages or SMS.
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Google has launched a new search technology that helps publishers sell books online. The service, called Google Print, will be incorporated into Google search queries.