Adobe Patents an AI System That Relights Portrait Photos to Match Any Scene
Got a great photo of someone but the lighting is all wrong for the scene you had in mind? Adobe has filed…
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OpenAI Patents Technology That Stops AI From Re-Reading the Same Instructions Twice
Every time you send a long prompt to an AI, the model re-processes every word from scratch, even if most of it…
Nvidia Patents an AI System That Breaks Images Into Sections Using Visual Modifications
Identifying exactly which pixels in an image belong to a tumor, a road, or a person is one of the hardest jobs…
Adobe Patents a Two-Pass AI System for Cutting Out Objects in Phone Photos
Selecting a person or object in a photo on your phone is still surprisingly rough around the edges. Adobe has filed a…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Spots Objects and Measures Their Depth at the Same Time
Most computer-vision systems treat object recognition and distance measurement as separate problems. Qualcomm's new patent fuses them into a single pass, so…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Identify Objects by Tracking Motion Between Frames
Most cameras figure out what's in a scene by looking at colors and shapes. Qualcomm's new patent takes a different approach: tracking…
Nvidia Patents a System That Automatically Diagnoses When an AI App Gets Worse
When an AI application starts giving worse answers, figuring out exactly why can take days of manual detective work. Nvidia has filed…
Google Patents a Way to Train One AI Model to Both Recognize and Describe Images
Most AI systems that understand images are trained to do one thing well. Google's new patent describes a training method that pushes…
Adobe Patents a Single AI System That Detects, Erases, and Rebuilds Photo Shadows
Shadows in photos look natural until you try to move or remove the object casting them. Adobe has filed a patent for…
Google Patents a System That Lets AI Build Its Own Image-Processing Structures
Training an AI to see things clearly is hard enough. Google has filed a patent for a system that lets the AI…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Box Objects in Images Without Knowing Which Way They Face
Most object-detection systems get confused when a car is facing left versus right, or a person is walking toward the camera instead…
Disney Patents a Way to Teach AI How to Cut Actors Out of Film Footage
Cutting an actor out of a scene frame by frame is one of the most tedious jobs in Hollywood. Disney is patenting…
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