Adobe Patents a Way to Stop Animated Characters from Moving Like Robots
Keyframe animation has always been a game of connect-the-dots — you set a start pose, an end pose, and hope the software…
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Adobe's New Patent Wants to Let AI Sculpt 3D Objects the Way It Generates Images
Adobe is patenting a way to make 3D mesh construction compatible with machine learning training loops — a longstanding headache in computer…
Adobe Patents a Color Editor Where You Drag to Pick a Shade, Then Drag to Change It
Adobe is patenting a new way to edit colors in images — one where you drag across a graph to pick exactly…
Adobe's New Patent Lets AI Pretend to Be Your Audience Before an Ad Goes Live
Before an ad campaign ever reaches a real audience, Adobe wants generative AI to simulate how that audience would likely respond —…
Samsung Patents a Way to Wake Only the Car Camera That's Actually Needed
Instead of running every car camera all the time, Samsung's new patent describes a system that uses ultra-wideband radar to spot and…
Samsung Patents an AI That Swaps Out Your Real Data Before Reading Your Messages
Samsung is patenting a clever sleight-of-hand: before your phone's AI model reads your messages or contacts, it quietly swaps your real private…
Samsung Patents an Antenna That Wraps Around the Camera to Save Space
As smartphone cameras keep growing, they're eating up the real estate that antennas need. Samsung's latest patent tackles that trade-off head-on by…
Samsung Patents a Camera Sensor That Captures Photos Two Ways at Once
Samsung is patenting a camera sensor that shoots in two different shutter modes simultaneously and merges the results — a practical attempt…
Zoox Patents a Way to Stop Self-Driving Cars from Missing Thin Objects
When a self-driving car scans the world in 3D, thin or sparse features like a truck's side mirror or a bike's handlebar…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Reads Documents the Way Humans Do
Nvidia is patenting a way to teach machines how to read documents the way humans do — understanding that a heading introduces…
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