Today, artificial intelligence as well object recognition. For Android, the first word that comes to mind when you think of this is Google Lens, although some manufacturers have created their own version integrated into their customization layer. In Huawei, it's called HiVision and integrated into the camera system.
EMUI HiVision is something similar Huawei's Google Lens, and an object recognition system that can be used for real-time versions, read QR codes or identify objects. It's the same with Google Lens though it does many other things, some small, as we'll see below.
What is HiVision and how to get it
Let's start at the beginning, what is this and how is it done? HiVision image recognition using a portable camera, and available from the camera app, by tapping on its icon (see screenshot above). The position of that icon has changed since the previous version of EMUI, so you can have it down as one mode. Instant access, and you can scroll from the lock screen and touch the icon.
EMUI has it a similar option called HiTouch almost the same but without the use of a camera, but with a sense of what is displayed on a mobile screen at the time. It is an optional function (you can use it Accessibility features> HiTouch and sees objects through two fingers at the same time on the mobile. This recognition is for purchase purposes only.
What to do with HiVision
Now that we know what HiVision is, let's look at what you can do with it. Many of its functions overlap little or big with the Google Lens standard, so that we will compare it to see who does the job better.
Other features of Google Lens not available on HiVision, at least for now. Selects text using the camera or special mode for menu menus. All of this allows you to create HiVision and how it compares to its Google Lens compatibility.
QR codes
One of the most useful functions of Google Lens is the ability to read QR codes without using any additional app. HiVision can do the same, and the system works fine, they agree all kinds of QR codes including texts, websites, contacts and Wi-Fi connection settings.
Both Google Lens and HiVision behave well to read QR codes, so that there are a few differences between them. The first is that HiVision shows the result as soon as it is read, while in Google Lens you need to touch the code to read it.
Translator
HiVision includes its own translating real time using a mobile camera The language support is more limited than translating to a Google or Lens translator, but includes Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, Italian, German and Portuguese, the ability to see the language automatically.
In supported languages the translator behaves, trying to double the style of the book as best he can. Do you interpretations are more than acceptable, or shows a slight decrease compared to Google Lens.
Shopping
Both HiVision and Google Lens allow you to use a portable camera to search the same product in online stores. The effect is far from perfect in both cases, although it will not cost you to get results by scanning everyday or popular products there and notifying them for a long time.
The big difference here is not the item recognition, but the search for that item in the stores. Google Shopping provides the most relevant results than that acquired by ViSenze, a photo-sharing company in China.
Item identification
Another common function of HiVision and Google Lens is object recognition, whatever it is. That is, you point the apple to your cellphone and the cellphone tells you – or you should – that it is an apple. Here Huawei relies on Microsoft technology to make recognition, and the result is common.
It's about real recognition based on some similar images, but that may or may not have anything to do with what you want to analyze. Google Lens Search is unbearable, it's very small (doesn't recognize pikachu!) But it often understands abstract concepts and can add additional information about an object.
Count calories
HiVision's non-Google Lens function is for calculating calories, this time thanks to azumio. The idea is like this: it points to what you will eat and how HiVision finds out what it is and shows you its nutritional information. Something like Yuka but strange, without relying on codes.
The system is at least curious and probably fun to see what comes out of the details of the food you offer. The truth is it works better than I expected, even though your main concern is the interface itself. Recognition comes and goes and a detailed screen appears or disappears constantly.
In short, either Google Lens or HiVision are incomplete, although both are useful or at least curious in some cases. Google Lens is generally stable and its text selection tool is very helpful, while HiVision behaves like a camera-based translator and includes a calorie counter, which never gets hurt.
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