Google's New Patent Teaches Devices to Recognize Objects Using Only Radar Echoes
Google is working on a way for devices to recognize objects — like your hand, a cup, or a person — using…
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Google's New Patent Lets You Point at Something, Say What You Want, and Watch Your Phone Handle It
Point at something, say what you want done with it, and an AI figures out which app to open and what action…
Google Patents an AI That Finishes Cut-Off Objects and Moves Them Anywhere in a Photo
You know that great photo where the subject is half-cut off by the edge of the frame? Google is patenting an AI…
Google Patents a System That Hides Sensitive Objects From Its AI Before They're Processed
Before Google's AI even looks at your image to answer a question, this patent describes a gatekeeper that quietly removes certain objects…
Google Patents an AI Assistant That Rewrites Its Memory of You Over Time
Most AI assistants forget everything the moment you close the app — or they remember everything forever, even when it's wrong. Google…
Microsoft Patents an Image Search That Reads What a Picture Means
Most image search works by matching pixels and colors — Microsoft's new patent wants to match meaning instead, understanding the relationships between…
Microsoft Patents AI That Colors Heat-Detecting Footage Differently for Each Object Type
Thermal cameras show you heat — but they can't tell you what's hot. Microsoft's new patent describes a system that figures out…
Microsoft Patents a Fix for Mismatched Colors When AI Removes Objects From Photos
Anyone who's tried to swap text in a photo using an AI editor has seen it: the replaced area looks slightly off,…
Nvidia Patents Technology That Matches What Multiple Cameras See of the Same Scene
When dozens of cameras watch the same scene from different angles, getting them all to agree on where something is turns out…
Nvidia Patents a Location-Aware System for Reading Traffic Signs
A stop sign in Tokyo looks nothing like one in Texas. Nvidia's latest patent tackles that exact problem — teaching an AI…
Nvidia Patents an AI System That Reads Data at Multiple Zoom Levels at Once
Most AI models look at data in one fixed level of detail — like always reading a map at the same zoom…
Nvidia Patents AI That Fills Game Surfaces With Repeating Images No Eye Can Detect
Every game world is full of textures — stone floors, grassy fields, brick walls — and they almost always repeat in ways…
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