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Re:Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not goi... by rush-tea on Thursday September 04, 2014 @04:10AM (#8267201)
shazam for face recognition? Sometime when you see a movie, you can't make out who stars in it. take a quick picture and shazam it away to get the actor / actress name!
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Re:Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not goi... by networkjester on Thursday September 04, 2014 @09:57AM (#8268236)
Google play does this when watching certain movies and shows. Not sure if it's added manually or does intelligent recognition. However, it's certainly useful - so I could see generalizing that capability for other movies / plays??

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Granted, the movies and shows on Play have at least a context to do the pattern matching with - a cast list greatly reduces the possible matches.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your best startup idea that you're not goi... by andyhmltn on Thursday September 04, 2014 @07:50AM (#8267667)
Possibly better fit for TV. Although it's usually no problem, I can imagine that cinemas would get really anxious about people taking pictures of a moving they are watching
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