Apple Patents a System for Placing Remote Users in Shared 3D Environments
When some people are in the same room and others are joining remotely, where do you put the remote person's avatar in…
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Apple Patents a Motion-Gated Heart Rate Sampling System for Wearables
Your Apple Watch sometimes takes heart rate readings at the worst possible moment — mid-stride, mid-pedal, maximum wrist bounce. This patent is…
Google Patents a Time-Multiplexed Display That Shifts Pixels to Boost Resolution
Google has patented a clever optical trick: instead of cramming more pixels onto a display panel, it rapidly tilts the angle of…
Waymo Patents a Lidar System That Sniffs Out Retroreflectors Before They Blind It
Reflective road signs and bike reflectors can overwhelm a self-driving car's lidar sensor, flooding it with so much light that nearby objects…
Google Patents an AI System That Reads Image Text and Decides What to Do With It
Point your camera at a sign, a menu, or a screenshot — Google's latest patent describes an AI that doesn't just read…
Google Patents an AI System That Auto-Optimizes Billions of Lines of Code
Google's internal codebase is famously one of the largest in the world. Now Google has patented a system that could send a…
Google Patents a System That Turns Ad Guidelines Into AI Training Data
Writing rules for what an AI is allowed to generate is one thing — turning those rules into usable training data is…
Google Patents a Progressive Regularization Method to Speed Up ML Model Training
Training a machine learning model is expensive and slow — and a big chunk of that cost comes from how you apply…
Google Patents an AI That Watches Your Gameplay and Coaches You in Real Time
Google has filed a patent for an AI system that watches your video game footage, reasons through the optimal strategy, and then…
Google Patents an Ordinal Regression Training Method for Ranked Recommendations
When a recommendation system suggests five things to you, the order matters — but most ML training routines don't enforce that order…
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