Adobe Patents an AI System That Erases Glass Reflections From Photos
Taking a photo through a window almost always means fighting a ghost of yourself in the glass. Adobe is filing a patent…
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Samsung Patents an AI That Compares Photos and Explains Which One Looks Better
Deciding which of two photos is sharper, better-exposed, or less noisy is surprisingly hard for a machine. Samsung's new patent describes an…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Focuses 3D Map Detail Where You Walk
Your AR headset builds a 3D map of every room it sees, but treating every surface with equal detail wastes computing power.…
Qualcomm Patents a Self-Learning System That Figures Out Where Your Phone Is
GPS is notoriously bad indoors, but cell networks know a lot about where you are. Qualcomm is filing patents on a system…
Red Hat Patents a Method to Lock AI Responses Inside Secure Isolated Environments
When an AI model hands back an answer, that answer has to travel somewhere, and Red Hat wants to control exactly what…
Sony Patents a Way to Match Typed Words to Character Animations Automatically
Type a phrase, get an animation. Sony has filed a patent for a system that compares the meaning of typed text against…
Samsung Patents a Display That Automatically Captures and Reads Handwriting From a Video Feed
Watching a lecture or meeting and struggling to catch every word someone writes on a whiteboard? Samsung has patented a system that…
Salesforce Patents a Voice AI That Talks Store Workers Through Checkout Tasks
Salesforce has filed a patent for an AI voice assistant designed to sit on a store employee's phone or tablet and talk…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Push LiDAR's Detection Range Further Out
LiDAR sensors on autonomous vehicles have a blind spot: the farther away an object is, the worse the AI gets at identifying…
Google Patents an AI That Learns Camera Angles in One Place and Applies Them Somewhere Else
Teaching an AI to imagine what a scene looks like from an angle nobody photographed is hard enough. Google is now filing…
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