Samsung Patents a System That Maps Skin Tone Across Your Whole Body From Your Face
Samsung has filed a patent for a technique that figures out a person's natural skin tone from their face alone — then…
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Samsung Patents a Background-Stripping Method to Make Object Detection Faster
Before an AI model even tries to spot a person or car in a video, Samsung wants it to strip away everything…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Routes Meeting Questions to the Right Person
Every long meeting has that moment: someone asks a question, it gets lost in the chat, and the right expert never sees…
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…
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…
IBM Patents a Mixture-of-Experts System for Tracing Text Back to Its Source
IBM is patenting a way to figure out where a piece of text originally came from — using a Mixture of Experts…
Adobe Patents a Single Neural Network That Runs Multiple Segmentation Tasks at Once
Cutting out a subject, isolating a sky, and detecting every person in a photo usually means running three separate AI models. Adobe's…
Adobe Patents a Machine Learning System for Reading Schematic Diagrams
Computers are great at reading words in a PDF, but terrible at understanding the circuit diagram or flowchart sitting right next to…
Adobe Patents a Complexity-Aware System for Smarter AI Inpainting
Adobe is patenting a way for its AI image-editing tools to first measure how visually complex a scene is — then automatically…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Sorts Your Screenshots by What You Were Actually Doing
Microsoft is patenting a way to automatically slice a long stream of screenshots into discrete activity chunks — so instead of a…
X Development Files Patent for Vision-Based Blast Furnace Pellet Optimization
Google's moonshot lab X Development is filing patents in… blast furnace steelmaking? Yes, and the core idea — using computer vision to…
Nvidia Patents a Two-Stage AI Pipeline for Teaching Robots to Grab Objects
Getting a robot to reliably pick up an arbitrary object is one of the hardest unsolved problems in robotics — and Nvidia…
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