Along with its native music hub for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, 7digital also announced today that it has developed an image recognition app for Android, which uses the camera on the Samsung Galaxy Tab to take a picture of album artwork or promotional material, analyses it and zips straight through to the 7digital store. Sounds familiar? That’s because it’s not completely new. This one we’ve seen today though, is super-fast, and very clever. Click through to see it in action…
Zavvi have an app that use this technology and Google has used it too, among others. What you can see this Samsung Galaxy Tab app doing though, is scanning not just album covers, but promotional materials like posters on buses and in magazines. The app can scan these promotional materials and recognise fragments of the artwork. Today, we got a demo of the new app, and boy is it speedy, and that’s not because the app is caching anything either.
