Qualcomm Patents Technology That Checks Landmarks Twice to Pin Your Location Faster
Qualcomm has filed a patent for an image-analysis technique that skips the slow part of visual recognition by doing a quick rough…
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Nvidia Patent Automates Action and Relationship Labeling Within 3D Scene Graphs
Teaching an AI to understand a 3D world requires mountains of labeled data, and labeling that data by hand is slow and…
Microsoft Files Patent Letting Gamers Swap Out Any In-Game Sound With AI
Hate the sound of gunshots in games but love everything else? Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that lets you…
Google Patents an AI Audio Editor That Takes Precise Instructions as Numbers
Google is patenting a way to give an AI audio editor precise, numeric instructions for editing sound, going well beyond simple commands…
Qualcomm Patent Reveals AI Camera Tech That Detects Events While Conserving Power
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a camera system that doesn't just passively record, it reads its surroundings, figures out what's worth…
Salesforce Patents a System That Coaches AI Into Giving More Accurate Answers
Improving an AI model usually means expensive retraining. Salesforce's new patent skips that entirely, letting a second AI rewrite the instructions until…
Nvidia Patents a Processor That Tunes Its Own AI Settings on the Fly
Nvidia has patented a processor that watches how much work an AI model has to do and automatically tweaks the model's internal…
Salesforce Patents Technology That Routes Tasks to the Correct Automated Assistant Instantly
When you ask a business AI tool to do something, how does it actually decide which skill to use? Salesforce is patenting…
Google Patents a System That Shifts Its Voice Assistant's Listening Power Based on Who's Talking
When an AI voice assistant is talking, it doesn't need to listen as carefully. Google has patented a system that takes advantage…
Microsoft Patent Enables HTML Metadata to Power Customizable Browser-Based AI Chatbots
Every website chatbot you've ever used is probably running on a server somewhere, costing that company real money. Microsoft's latest patent describes…
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