Adobe Patents a System That Generates Content When Real-World Events Happen
Adobe is patenting a system where a server watches the internet for real-world events, then automatically kicks your device's on-device AI into…
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Adobe Patents a Pipeline That Builds 3D Models From One Photo
Take one photo of an object, and Adobe's patented system reconstructs a full 3D model of it — no turntable, no depth…
Adobe Patents a System for Generating Consistent Characters Across AI Scenes
One of the most frustrating problems with AI image generators is that your character looks like a completely different person from one…
Qualcomm Patents a Context-Aware Screen Time Monitor That Weighs Your Environment
Your phone already tracks how long you stare at a screen — but Qualcomm is filing patents for a system that also…
Qualcomm Patents an ML Fallback System for Body Pose Tracking Failures
Qualcomm's new patent tackles one of the messiest problems in real-time body tracking: what happens when the physics engine gets it wrong?…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Stops Updating Your Watch When Its Screen Goes Dark
When you're listening to music through earbuds and your smartwatch screen is off, why should your phone keep sending playback updates to…
Qualcomm Patents a Self-Monitoring Trigger That Catches When Its AV AI Contradicts Itself
What if your self-driving system could notice when its own subsystems disagree — and automatically save the sensor data from that moment…
Qualcomm Patents Zoom-Aware Rectification for Stereo Camera Pairs
When you zoom in on a dual-camera phone, the stereo math that powers depth sensing quietly breaks — Qualcomm's new patent is…
Qualcomm Patents a Display Pipeline That Fixes Color Fringing After Foveated Blending
Color fringing at the edge of your field of view is one of those small-but-annoying artifacts that XR headsets still haven't fully…
Qualcomm Patents GPS-Assisted Motion Estimation for 3D Point Cloud Compression
Compressing 3D LiDAR data is brutally hard — the scene changes every millisecond and every point in space needs to move with…
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