Sony Patents a Way to Compress 3D Scans Based on Their Own Detail Level
When you compress multiple 3D scans at once, treating them all the same wastes storage on low-detail data and degrades high-detail data.…
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Disney Patents an AI System That Pins Masks to Objects Across Every Video Frame
Keeping a digital mask locked to a moving face or logo through thousands of video frames is one of the most tedious…
Sony Patents a System That Scores How a Farm Field Changes Over Time
Sony is staking a claim in agricultural technology with a patent for a system that tracks whether a farm's soil and biological…
IBM Patents a Modular Architecture for Running Error-Free Quantum Programs
Quantum computers are famously error-prone, and that flaw has kept them out of serious use for decades. IBM's new patent describes an…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Reads Complex Road Signs Symbol by Symbol
A car's camera sees a sign, but does it actually read it? Qualcomm has patented a system that doesn't just spot a…
Adobe Patents a Fix for the Garbled Text Problem in AI-Generated Images
Ask any AI image generator to write real words on a sign or a poster, and you'll get a mess of convincing-looking…
Microsoft Patents an AI Tool That Copies Chart Styles From a Reference Image
You've found the perfect chart in a report or slide deck, and now you have to spend 20 minutes manually recreating its…
Salesforce Patents a Two-Graph System to Make AI Answers More Accurate
AI assistants that answer questions from company documents often get facts wrong because they read text loosely, without understanding how ideas connect.…
Google Patents a Way to Fix Lighting Across Every Angle of a 3D Scene
When you stitch photos together into a 3D scene, some angles look washed out and others look too dark. Google's new patent…
Sony Patents a System That Adjusts In-Car Video to Match the Road Outside
Watching a movie in a moving car while the road curves the other way is a recipe for nausea. Sony has patented…
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