Disney Patents an AI That Stands In for Slow Resort Planning Simulations
Running a full simulation every time you want to test a scenario is expensive and slow. Disney's new patent describes a way…
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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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Samsung's New Patent Teaches AI to Place Objects Into Photos at the Right Depth and Angle
Samsung is working on an AI image-generation system that doesn't just paste objects into photos — it uses 3D spatial data to…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Maps Your Body's Position Inside a Moving Car
Nvidia is patenting a system that uses a single camera and AI to figure out exactly where your body is in three-dimensional…
Nvidia Patents Technology That Rebuilds Real Locations in Three Dimensions from Phone Footage
What if your phone's camera — just one lens, no depth sensor — could reconstruct a full 3D model of everything it…
Nvidia Patents a Neural Network System for Rendering 3D Virtual World Images
Nvidia has patented a method for using neural networks to synthesize images directly from three-dimensional virtual environments — a technique that could…
Sony Patents an AI That Tells Game Developers Which Parts of Their Game Are Boring
Imagine a game developer being able to pinpoint the exact chapter where players quit — not by guessing, but because an AI…
Sony Patents a Robot Navigation System That Imagines What's Around the Corner
Before taking a step, Sony's patented system has a robot mentally simulate what it would see if it shifted its position or…
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…
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…
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