Disney Patents an AI That Maps Key Points on Faces in 3D
Disney has patented a facial tracking technique that quietly sneaks a 3D model of a face into what's otherwise a flat-image recognition…
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AI simulation patents
World models and digital twins: AI that predicts physics, builds 3D scenes, and rehearses reality before acting in it. Early, strange, and worth tracking.
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Nvidia Patents a Way to Teach AI How Soft and Flexible Objects Bend Under Pressure
Getting a computer to realistically simulate a squishy, stretchy, or bendable object is genuinely hard — and making that simulation fast enough…
Microsoft Patents an AI Image Tool That Checks a Library Before Drawing Anything New
Running an AI image generator for every single request is expensive and energy-hungry — even when the image you need is something…
Google Patents an AI That Builds a 3D Model of Your Specific Object From a Few Photos
Give Google's system a handful of photos of your coffee mug and a text prompt, and it will generate a full 3D…
Google's New Patent Teaches AI to Find Drug Candidates Faster
Finding a drug that sticks to the right biological target is a needle-in-a-haystack problem — Google is filing patents on ways to…
Google Patents an AI That Reconstructs 3D Objects From One Photo — and Admits When It's Guessing
Figuring out what a 3D object looks like from a single flat photo is genuinely hard — and most AI systems that…
Adobe's New Patent Wants to Let AI Sculpt 3D Objects the Way It Generates Images
Adobe is patenting a way to make 3D mesh construction compatible with machine learning training loops — a longstanding headache in computer…
Adobe's New Patent Lets AI Pretend to Be Your Audience Before an Ad Goes Live
Before an ad campaign ever reaches a real audience, Adobe wants generative AI to simulate how that audience would likely respond —…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Spot 3D Objects Way Beyond Lidar's Reach
Lidar — the laser-based ranging tech that gives self-driving cars their 3D vision — has a hard distance limit. Nvidia thinks it…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Track 3D Objects Using Only 2D Camera Feeds
Most autonomous vehicle systems do heavy geometric lifting to convert camera images into a 3D "bird's-eye view" of the world — Qualcomm's…
Google Patents a 3D-Aware Feature Matching System for Object Recognition
Matching a photo of an object taken from the front to one taken from the side is surprisingly hard — and Google's…
Nvidia Patents a Foundation Model for Generating Full-Body 3D Digital Humans
Nvidia is working on a single AI model that can generate a complete, photorealistic 3D human — face, hands, full body —…
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