Selected ExperimentHardware · Computer Vision
Hermes Lens
Wearable glasses that capture outside text and translate it into your preferred language — a lightweight pipeline from camera to OCR to an on-device display.
Snapshot
- Role
- Designer & builder
- Type
- Wearable hardware prototype
- Pipeline
- Camera → OCR → translate → display
- Tools
- Tesseract · OpenCV · Python · small LCD
Overview
Translation, hands-free and in context
Reading signage, menus, or labels in another language usually means stopping to pull out a phone. Hermes Lens explores doing it hands-free: a wearable captures text in the user's view, runs OCR, translates it, and shows the result on a compact display — keeping the interaction in the flow of looking at the world.
Approach
- •Captured frames and isolated text regions with OpenCV
- •Ran OCR to extract text, then translated it
- •Rendered output to a small on-device display
Outcome
A working prototype demonstrating an end-to-end, low-friction translation pipeline in a wearable form factor — a study in lightweight on-device computer vision.