Bing Vision is an

image recognition Computer vision is an interdisciplinary scientific field that deals with how computers can gain high-level understanding from digital images or videos. From the perspective of engineering, it seeks to understand and automate tasks that the human ...

application created by

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which is installed on Windows Phones running version 7.5 and above, including

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. It is a part of the

Bing Mobile Bing for mobile (formerly ''Live Search Mobile'') is a search tool for handheld mobile devices from Microsoft as part of their Bing search engine. It is designed for mobile device displays. Bing Mobile is built into Windows Mobile and Windows Pho ...

suite of services, and on most devices can be accessed using the search button. On

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devices where

Microsoft Cortana Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...

is available, it is only available through the lenses of the

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app (as the search button now activates Cortana). Bing Vision can scan

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, Microsoft Tags, books,

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, and

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. Books, CDs, and DVDs are offered through Bing Shopping.

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* {{Microsoft, state=collapsed Windows Phone Windows Phone software Object recognition and categorization Computer vision software Augmented reality applications Microsoft software

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