Sony Patents a Context-Aware Eye-Tracking System That Knows What You're Trying to Select
Picking things with your eyes sounds simple — until you realize your gaze wanders constantly and the wrong item keeps getting highlighted.…
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Sony Patents a System That Auto-Tunes Camera Settings During 3D Scanning
Getting a clean 3D scan of a real-world object is surprisingly hard — bad exposure, wrong angle, or tricky lighting can ruin…
Sony Patents a Spatial Audio System That Moves Your Caller Closer as Your Relationship Deepens
Sony is patenting a way to make remote calls feel more like real conversations — by placing each caller's voice at a…
Intel Patents a Real-Time System for Scoring How Good Encoded Video Actually Looks
Encoding video fast is one thing — knowing whether the result actually looks good to a human eye, in real time, is…
Intel Patents a Video Call Background Remover That Remembers What's Behind You
Most video call background replacement tools guess what's behind you frame by frame — Intel's patent takes a different approach, quietly building…
Intel Patents a Reconfigurable Chip Array for Running Neural Network Layers
Running a convolutional neural network efficiently is hard partly because each layer wants a different compute shape. Intel's patent describes a processor…
AMD Patents a Two-Word Wake System That Won't Trigger Unless You're Actually Looking
Your smart speaker fires off when the TV says something that sounds like 'Hey [assistant]' — and AMD thinks it has a…
Salesforce Patents a Cache That Feeds Old AI Answers Back Into New Prompts
Salesforce has figured out a way to get twice the mileage out of every answer an AI gives — either serving it…
Disney Patents an AI That Rewrites Tour Scripts in Any Commentator's Voice
Disney is patenting a system that doesn't just generate a commentary script — it rewrites that script to sound like a specific…
Disney Patents a Motorized 3D Projection Surface That Pops Out on Cue
Disney is patenting a projection surface that physically unfurls on command — and then displays 3D visuals synced to a show, or…
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