News Release
ATZ240823_A_E

August 23, 2024
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

The Artizon Museum Official App, Updated
Now with an audio guide using image recognition
technology to identify works

Fig. 1The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), which is committed
to being "an open museum with advanced design features,” is making dedicated efforts toutilize IT in its exhibitions and various initiatives. Now the latest update to the Artizon
Museum Official App, which offers smartphone users, for free, an audio guide, is equippedwith image recognition technology to identify works in the collection. This new feature has
been available for the first time when the Place and Piece exhibition opened on Saturday,July 27.
To use this new feature of the app, visitors simply point their smartphone’s camera at awork, as though taking a photograph of it. The app will recognize the image and start theaudio guide. Besides making the audio guide easier to use, seamless integration of thephoto and audio guide features eliminates the need to stop the audio guide to captureimages.
1/3Essentials, Special Features, and Improvements
1) Essentials
・ Name: Artizon Museum Official App
・ Release Date: July 24, 2024
・ Supported Devices: iPhone and Android phones running on iOS 16 or Android 13 orlater operating systems. (Please note that the app is not guaranteed to run on allsmartphones.)
・ Requires Wi-Fi (provided by the museum) and location-search features.
・ Available in 4 languages: Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese, and Korean.

２）Special Features and Improvements
・First museum use of GAZIRU, the high-resolution image recognition technology
developed by GAZIRU, Inc., to identify works.

・Incorporation of photography functions in the official app, for seamless integration of
the audio guide and photography. Images can be stored in the smartphone’s cameraroll.

・The audio guide can also be operated using the phone’s keypad.

・Content is stored in the Artizon Cloud database system（described later）, ensuringthat latest information, updated as needed, is available to app users. Users do not needto reinstall the app each time content is added.

・The program has been completely reworked to work smoothly with the latest
operating systems.

Audio Guide Images

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The Ishibashi Foundation’s IT initiative—Artizon Cloud
Artizon Cloud is an essential component of the Ishibashi Foundation information systems
that support the Artizon Museum as “an open museum with advanced design features.” An
independently developed IT system, Artizon Cloud combines what were several separate
databases with information about our collection and data specific to each of the works it
includes. This system is the critical core of many activities: it supports the work of our staff,
archives data, and makes that data accessible through websites and smartphones
applications. The data it contains are regularly updated and added to, to ensure that visitors
to the museum can find the information they need to satisfy their intellectual curiosity.
Artizon Cloud Diagram

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For inquiries about this press release:
Artizon Museum Public Relations GroupE-mail: publicity@artizon.jp TEL: +81 3-6263-0132(Direct)
1-7-2 Kyobashi Chuo-ku Tokyo 104-0031

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