Adobe Patents a Pipeline That Builds 3D Models From One Photo
Take one photo of an object, and Adobe's patented system reconstructs a full 3D model of it — no turntable, no depth…
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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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Sony Patents an AI Engine That Remixes Your Music to Match Video Game Moments
Imagine playing a tense boss fight — but instead of the game's original score, your own playlist is dynamically remixed in real-time…
Samsung Patents a Neural Network System for Cleaner Real-Time Shadows
Noisy, grainy shadows are one of the most stubborn visual artifacts in real-time 3D rendering — and Samsung thinks a neural network…
Adobe Patents a Neural Material Encoding System for Lightweight 3D Assets
Adobe wants to let you take a richly detailed 3D object — complex curves, intricate surface materials — and compress its visual…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Skips Its Own ML Model to Save Power
What if your phone's AI could decide, mid-task, that it doesn't actually need to run the full neural network? Qualcomm is patenting…
Sony Patents an AI Upscaling System That Uses 3D Game World Data to Sharpen Frames
Sony's latest patent describes an AI upscaling system that doesn't just blindly enlarge a frame — it feeds the machine learning model…
Google Patents a Flow-Model Approach to Train NeRFs on Sparse Photos
Neural Radiance Fields are extraordinary at reconstructing 3D scenes — but they usually demand dozens or hundreds of photos to work well.…
Google Patents a Geometry-Free Neural Renderer That Skips 3D Reconstruction
Most 3D scene synthesis systems spend enormous effort building an explicit map of the world — depth, meshes, NeRFs — before they…
Nvidia Patents a System That Blends Real Camera Feeds With Digital Twin Simulations
What if a self-driving car or robot could see the world through two lenses at once — one real, one simulated —…
Nvidia Patents Neural Network System That Simulates Data Center Cooling Hardware
Running a data center is essentially a giant thermal management problem — and Nvidia wants to replace physical trial-and-error with neural networks…
Nvidia Patents a Non-Linear Projection System for Rendering 3D Gaussian Scenes
3D Gaussian Splatting is the hottest technique in real-time scene reconstruction right now — but it breaks down when cameras have fisheye…
Nvidia Patents AI System That Reconstructs 3D Scenes From Video at Any Point in Time
Nvidia has filed a patent for a system that takes ordinary multi-camera video and generates a full 3D volumetric snapshot of a…
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