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HP Experimental ``Translating'' Camera Featured at ``Friday at Labs'' PALO ALTO, Calif.--June 6, 2003-- What: "Fridays at Labs" -- a series giving media the opportunity to check out cool technologies and meet today's thought leaders at HP Labs in Palo Alto, Calif. Next event: "Breaking the language barrier with an experimental HP iPAQ translating camera." Traveling to a foreign land can be exciting -- and frustrating. If you don't speak the language, you can't read local signs, menus or publications. You lose much of the experience of being in a new environment. As the summer travel season begins, HP Labs is working on a new way to break the language barrier. Researchers have equipped an HP iPAQ with a camera attachment and a wireless Internet connection to create a mobile translator. By taking snapshots and using complex optical character recognition software that processes the text from images to an Internet translation engine, the prototype iPAQ would allow travelers to read road signs, menus, newspapers and more at the click of a digital shutter. Reporters are invited to see how the HP iPAQ translator could ease foreign travel, and how HP Labs researchers have taken advantage of image recognition software to provide a unique approach to an age-old problem. When: Friday, June 6, 10-11 a.m. PST Where: HP Labs, 1501 Page Mill Road (at Peter Coutts Road) Who: Media by RSVP only. RSVP: John Reseburg, Hill and Knowlton, +1 415 281 7167, john.reseburg@hillandknowlton.com or Dave Berman, HP, +1 650 857 7277, dave_berman@hp.com.