Google Patent: Robots Obeying Open-Ended Object Commands Without Hardcoded Vocabulary Lists
Most robots today need to be trained on every object they'll ever touch. Google's new patent describes a system that lets a…
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Salesforce Patents AI That Corrects Its Own Visual Math Mistakes
Counting objects in a photo sounds trivial for a human, but it trips up most AI systems. Salesforce is filing a patent…
Sony Patents a Kitchen Device That Reads Ingredient Flavors to Suggest Better Pairings
Sony is building a patent around a kitchen computer that doesn't just look up recipes but actually sniffs your ingredients and cross-checks…
Sony Patents a System That Lets AI Style Game Objects From Your Own Photos
Sony is patenting a way for a game to look at a photo you upload and automatically decide how an in-game object…
Nvidia Patents an AI System That Maps Intersection Zones for Self-Driving Cars
Intersections are where most crashes happen, and they're also the hardest thing to teach a self-driving car. Nvidia's latest patent describes a…
Qualcomm Patents AI That Cuts Out Objects in Video Using Text and Image Cues Together
Qualcomm has filed a patent for an AI system that can isolate objects in video frames by accepting two different kinds of…
Google Patents a Way to Let AI Reconstruct Any Camera Angle From a Few Photos
Google wants an AI to look at a handful of photos of a place and confidently generate what the scene would look…
Sony Patents a Faster Way to Generate AI Training Data From Two Probability Models
Generating enough training data for AI is one of the quieter bottlenecks in building image recognition systems. Sony's new patent takes a…
Adobe Patents an AI Tool That Generates Themed Design Elements From a Text Prompt
Type 'birthday party' into an Adobe app and watch a set of matching clipart-style objects appear, ready to drag into your design.…
IBM Patent Uses Virtual Reality to Detect Early Signs of Cognitive Decline
IBM has patented a system that uses a computer-generated virtual world to screen people for signs of cognitive disorders, adjusting the difficulty…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Spot People in Video Before Even Opening the File
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that can detect whether a person appears in a video stream without ever fully…
Samsung Files Patent for Zone-by-Zone AI Defect Detection on Silicon Wafers
Samsung is patenting a system that trains a different AI model for each physical region of a silicon wafer, betting that defects…
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