Adobe Patents a System That Fills In Animation Frames Designers Don't Draw
Animating something used to mean drawing every frame, or at least every keyframe. Adobe is patenting a way to take a single…
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Adobe Patents an AI That Builds Visual Scenes From Your Asset Library
Type a description of a scene, and Adobe's patented system pulls matching assets from your library and drops them into an AI-generated…
Adobe Patents a System That Invents Fake Users to Train Its AI Assistants
Training an AI assistant requires thousands of example conversations, but real user data is hard to collect and raises privacy concerns. Adobe's…
Qualcomm Patents an RFID Reader That Picks Its Best Antenna Automatically
RFID readers are only as good as their antennas, and in a busy warehouse or store, a single antenna rarely covers everything…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Keep Phones Synced When Switching Between Satellites and Cell Towers
When your phone is connected to a satellite network and tries to hand off to a cell tower, it has a timing…
Qualcomm Patent Targets AI-Driven Antenna Selection to Predict Signal Drops Early
Your phone normally waits for a signal to get bad before switching antennas. Qualcomm wants it to predict the problem and switch…
Qualcomm Patents a Chip Design That Keeps Two Graphics Jobs Processing Simultaneously
Mobile GPUs typically finish one graphics job before starting the next, leaving parts of the chip sitting idle. Qualcomm's new patent describes…
Qualcomm Patents Technology That Sends Where You Are Looking to the Cloud Before Your Screen Updates
Rendering a convincing AR scene in real time is one of the hardest problems in computing, and Qualcomm thinks the answer is…
Qualcomm Patents a Multi-Scale Lidar Motion Tracker for Self-Driving Cars
To drive safely, a self-driving car doesn't just need to see the world around it, it needs to understand how everything in…
Qualcomm Patent Bundles Sparse AR Layers to Cut Split Display Bandwidth
Sending AR graphics wirelessly to a headset display is surprisingly wasteful when each floating label, icon, or overlay travels as its own…
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