In this paper, we propose a camera system which translates Japanese texts in a scene. The system is portable and consists of four components: digital camera, character image extraction process, character recognition process, and translation process. The system extracts character strings from a region which a user specifies, and translates them into English.

Figure 1: Conceptual sketches of some three-dimensional (3D) medical telepresence paradigms. Left: a portable multi-camera unit. Right: hospital-based 3D viewing. (Sketches by Andrei State.)

INTRODUCTION Indocyanine green (ICG)-(99m)Tc-nanocolloid is a novel hybrid fluorescent radioactive tracer for sentinel node (SN) biopsy. This study has aimed to evaluate the added value of this novel versatile tracer in a series of patients with different malignancies. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty patients (with penile carcinoma, oral cavity tumors, melanoma) were consecutively included betwee...

Modeling of the tomographic weights usually incorporates angle of view, decay and attenuation. A usual assumption is that the gamma camera is a long way from the object, this leads to the approximation that the angle of view subtending the front of the collimator tube is the same as that subtending the back (Weir & Green, 1994). However, if the distance between camera and subject is small then ...

A 9 pm cutoff 256x256 hand-held quantum well infrared photodetector (QWIP) camera has been demonstrated. Excellent imagery, with a noise equivalent differential temperature (NEAT) of 26 mK has been achieved. In this paper, we discuss the performance of this portable long-wavelength infrared camera in quantum efficiency, NEAT, minimum resolvable temperature difference (MRTD), uniformity, etc. an...