Waymo Patents a Microphone System That Lets Robotaxis Hear Sirens Coming
Waymo is patenting a way for its self-driving cars to hear an ambulance coming before any camera can see it — then…
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Google Patents On-Device AI Recommendation Engine for Television Apps
Google is filing patents for a TV recommendation system that builds and runs its personalization model entirely on your device — no…
Google Patents a Teacher-Student Framework for Shrinking AI Models
What if you could take a massive, expensive AI model and compress its knowledge into a tiny one that runs cheaply on…
Google Patents a Direction-Aware Touchpad That Only Powers the Sensors You're About to Touch
Most touchpads waste power keeping every sensor awake, even the ones your finger will never reach. Google's new patent describes a smarter…
Google Patents a Speed-Sensitive Rotary Crown for Smartwatches
Spin the crown on Google's hypothetical smartwatch slowly, and it scrolls carefully. Spin it fast, and it leaps — because the software…
Waymo Patents a LiDAR System That Adapts to Fog in Real Time
Fog is one of the hardest problems for self-driving cars — and Waymo's new patent describes a LiDAR system that doesn't just…
Google Patents a Smarter Way to Measure Crosstalk in 3D Displays
When you put on a 3D headset and see ghosting — a faint double image bleeding from one eye's view into the…
Google Patents the 'Teacher-Student' AI Training Method Behind Model Compression
Three of the biggest names in deep learning — Hinton, Dean, and Vinyals — are on a Google patent for knowledge distillation,…
Google Patents Smarter Uplink Scheduling for XR and Cloud Gaming on 5G
When you're streaming a cloud game or wearing an XR headset, your phone is constantly negotiating radio airtime with the cell tower…
Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Ad Attribution System Using Attestation Tokens
Google is trying to solve one of mobile advertising's most contentious problems — figuring out which ad caused you to install an…
Google Patents a Polarization-Recycling Optical System for LCoS Displays
Most of the light in an LED-based display gets thrown away before it ever reaches your eye — Google's new patent is…
Google Patents a Hybrid Auto-Focus System That Prioritizes Close-Up Subjects
Getting a sharp photo of something small and close — a flower petal, an insect, a piece of food — is surprisingly…
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