Apple Patents a Home Screen Widget That Shows When Family Members Are Active on Their Devices
Apple is working on a way to put live status indicators for family members directly on your iPhone home screen, so you…
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Google Patent Teaches AI to Detect Sounds From a Single Audio Example
Most audio AI systems need thousands of labeled recordings to learn a new sound. Google's latest patent describes a system that can…
Nvidia Patent Teaches Video AI to Copy Motion From Reference Clips
Describing motion in words is surprisingly hard. Nvidia's new patent wants to let you skip the verbal gymnastics entirely and just show…
Tesla Patents a Locking Foot That Snaps Solar Roof Tiles Together
Tesla's Solar Roof tiles are known for being expensive and tricky to install. A newly published patent suggests the company is rethinking…
Samsung Patents an AI That Rewrites What Happens Next in Your Photos
What if you could tell your phone to show you what a photo would look like five minutes later? Samsung is patenting…
IBM Patent Locks AI Models Inside an Encrypted Vault From All Parties
What happens when two companies want to use each other's AI without trusting each other? IBM has a patent for exactly that…
Adobe Patents a Way to Catch AI Images Made by Invoking an Artist's Name
Type an artist's name into an AI image generator and out comes something that mimics their style. Adobe is now patenting a…
Qualcomm Patents a Two-Brain Route-Planning System for Self-Driving Cars
What if your car's autopilot ran two separate route-planning systems at once, then had a referee pick the best ideas and a…
Sony Patent Targets Smarter Personalized Content Delivery for Nursing Care Robots
Sony is building a brain for nursing care robots that reads a patient's personal profile and decides, on its own, what to…
Disney Patents an AI Translation System That Keeps Rewriting Until It Gets It Right
Disney is patenting a translation tool that doesn't just translate once and call it done. It scores its own work, figures out…
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