Google has acquired Jetpac for an undisclosed amount. That company is involved in technology to recognize people and objects. All existing Jetpac apps will no longer be supported starting next month, it was announced.
Jetpac has three iOS applications that work with a so-called neural network, with which people and objects can be recognized. The first program, Jetpac City Guides, automatically creates city guides based on Instagram photos, among other things. The software then analyzes where, for example, most people laugh, in order to link a rating to it.
In addition, Jetpac currently offers two more apps: Spotter and Deep Belief. The first makes it possible to recognize and name objects with the camera, such as a guitar or a parking meter. The second relates to a framework and helps the phone learn about objects by rotating the camera around objects.
Jetpac says on its site that it will remove all apps from the App Store and will cease support from September 15. From then on, the team will definitely work for Google, but what is unknown. Most likely, Google wants to further expand the possibilities to tag people and objects, perhaps in the already existing services.