Google Patents an AI That Converts Photos Between Visual Styles Without Losing the Subject
Google has patented a way to take an image from one visual world — say, a real photograph — and regenerate it…
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Google Patents an Assistant That Knows You're Talking to It Without a Wake Word
What if your Google Assistant could tell you were talking to it just by watching your face and listening to how you…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Builds Realistic Hand Poses from Fingertip Positions Alone
Getting a virtual hand to grip a coffee mug convincingly is surprisingly hard — most systems either look robotic or require an…
Nvidia Patents a System for Teaching Robots to Pick Objects Out of a Bin
Getting a robot to reach into a messy bin and pull out the right item — without knocking everything else over —…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Learns to Outline Objects in Photos Without Human Help
Training an AI to recognize and outline objects in photos normally requires thousands of hours of humans manually tracing those objects. Nvidia's…
Nvidia Patents a System That Makes Fake Objects Look Lit From the Same Sky as the Real Scene
Getting a computer-generated car or pedestrian to look like it genuinely belongs in a real photograph is harder than it sounds —…
Samsung Patents AI That Removes Blurring Doubles When Enlarging Low-Resolution Photos
When your phone blends a sharp image with a blurry one to make a high-resolution photo, you sometimes get a ghost —…
Qualcomm Patents an Object Detector That Tracks How Scenes Change Over Time
A camera that only looks at one frame at a time will always miss things that are just starting to move. Qualcomm's…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Fuse Camera and Depth Sensor Data for AI Scene Reading
Your phone's camera sees color and light, but it doesn't naturally know how far away things are. Qualcomm's new patent describes a…
Samsung's New Patent Stops GPS from Going Haywire Inside Tunnels
GPS loses its mind the moment you enter a tunnel — and Samsung is filing patents to fix that with an AI…
Nvidia's New Patent Fits Custom Outlines Around Objects That Boxes Miss
Most self-driving car cameras draw a plain rectangle around every obstacle they spot. Nvidia's new patent describes a way to fit a…
Waymo's New Patent Teaches One AI to Plan Its Own Route and Read Every Other Driver at Once
Most self-driving systems treat 'where should I go?' and 'where is everyone else going?' as two separate problems. Waymo's new patent collapses…
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