Waymo Patents an On-Board Vision-Language Model That Answers Questions About the Road Ahead
Waymo is patenting a system that lets different parts of a self-driving car ask a vision-language model focused questions about specific patches…
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Salesforce's New Patent Wants to Replace Your Procurement Team With AI Agents
Salesforce is patenting a system where AI agents don't just suggest procurement actions — they take them, autonomously contacting suppliers on your…
Qualcomm's New Patent Pulls Motion Data from Inside Its Own Diffusion Model
Qualcomm is trying to extract motion data from a diffusion model's own internal steps — not as an afterthought, but as the…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants to Replace Wireless Rule Books with ML
Every wireless transmission involves dozens of configuration decisions — modulation scheme, power level, antenna mode — that today are handled by rigid…
Intel Patents an AI That Keeps Correcting Its Own Read of Your Body in 3D
Getting a computer to understand where your limbs are in 3D space from a single flat photo is surprisingly hard — and…
Intel Patents an AI That Teaches Robots to Imagine What's Around the Corner
Robots are usually blind to whatever their camera isn't directly pointed at — Intel's new patent uses the same AI image-filling tech…
Sony Patents a Way to Teach AI by Showing It the Easy Problem First
What if you could teach an AI to solve a hard problem by first making it practice the easy version in reverse?…
Sony Patents an AI That Turns Your Photo Into a Game-Ready Avatar
Sony is filing patents for a system that takes a real photo of you and a few text descriptors, then generates an…
Sony's New Patent Wants to Replace Your Controller With Your Body and Voice
Sony is exploring a way to let a machine learning model watch you, listen to you, and track your movements — then…
Sony Patents an AI That Watches Your Game and Writes What It Sees
Sony is working on an AI layer that watches gameplay footage and automatically writes descriptions of what's happening on screen — think…
Samsung Patents a Real-Time Video System That Labels Every Pixel Across Frames
Imagine a camera that doesn't just detect the car in a video — it labels every single pixel in every frame, keeps…
Samsung Patents an AI Assistant That Chains Multi-Domain Tasks in One Request
Ask your phone to find out how long it takes to get somewhere and automatically set an alarm for arrival — that's…
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