IBM Patents an AI System That Reads Factory Sensor Streams to Catch Manufacturing Defects
Most factory defects leave a fingerprint in the data long before a human inspector catches them. IBM is patenting an AI approach…
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Qualcomm Patents a Method That Blends Training Examples to Improve Image Generation
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a technique that mixes existing examples together before training an AI image generator, a small change…
Sony Patents an AI Upscaler That Learns From the Video It's About to Fix
Most AI upscalers are trained once on huge datasets and then applied to whatever video you throw at them. Sony's new patent…
Apple Patent Moves Keyboard Mode Indicators Directly Next to Your Cursor
Apple is working on a system that shows you exactly what typing mode you're in by placing a small indicator right next…
Nvidia Patent Brings Score Distillation Sampling to AI Audio Generation
Nvidia is adapting one of the most effective tricks from AI image generation, score-distillation sampling, and pointing it at audio. The goal:…
IBM Patent: Authorized Users Finish Running Work Before Access Gets Cut Off
When an IT team rotates a database password, it can abruptly kill whatever work is running inside that system. IBM's new patent…
Apple Patents a System That Pulls Contact Details Out of Your Messages
Every day, people text you a new phone number or meeting time, and you manually copy it into your contacts or calendar.…
Nvidia Patent Uses AI to Fill Rendering Gaps in Graphics Processing
What if your GPU only had to draw part of every frame, and an AI filled in the rest? That's exactly what…
Samsung Patents Technology That Restores Photos More Sharply at Any File Size
Squeezing images down for storage or streaming always involves a tradeoff between file size and quality. Samsung's new patent describes a neural-network…
IBM Patents a System That Picks the Cheapest Drone Delivery Route in Real Time
Before a drone ever leaves the ground, IBM's patent wants a computer to have already calculated the cheapest possible path, chosen the…
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