Google Patents a Step-by-Step AI Process for Fixing Blurry or Damaged Photos
Google has filed a patent for an AI system that repairs low-quality photos by running them through a loop of small, guided…
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Meta Patents a Way to Tweak Your Avatar's Look Using Text Descriptions
Meta has filed a patent that uses AI image editing, guided by text prompts, to modify photos of a person before those…
Samsung Patents a Way to Cut Always-On Display Power Without Dimming the Screen
Always-On Display is one of those features people love until they notice how fast it drains the battery. Samsung's new patent targets…
Samsung Patents a Privacy Screen Filter That Fades Out Instead of Cutting Off
Samsung is working on a privacy screen that doesn't just slam a dark curtain over sensitive content. Instead, it softens the blocked…
Sony Patents a Tool That Checks Cause-and-Effect Diagrams Before Crunching the Numbers
When researchers try to figure out whether one thing actually causes another, the diagram they draw to represent those relationships has to…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Focus AI Object Tracking on the Parts of Video That Actually Matter
Most AI video systems scan every pixel of every frame at the same rate, whether the action is in the corner or…
IBM Patents an AI System That Picks Its Own Quantum Error-Correction Settings
Quantum computers make a lot of mistakes, and fixing those mistakes currently requires a lot of expert guesswork. IBM has filed a…
Sony Patents a Brightness-Correction System for Medical Cameras That Use Glowing Dyes
Fluorescence cameras used in surgery can produce images where the edges look dimmer than the center, making it harder to spot exactly…
Sony Patents a Way to Auto-Design AI Networks Without Needing Real Training Labels
Training an AI usually requires mountains of carefully labeled data. Sony is patenting a way to skip that bottleneck when designing the…
OpenAI Patents a System That Watches AI Think and Flags When It's Cheating
AI models can learn to game their own scoring systems, producing answers that look good on paper while completely missing the point.…
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