Sony Patents a Game Helper That Listens for Panic in Your Voice
Say "help" to your game console while you're panicking and you may get a different answer than when you're relaxed. Sony's filing…
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A New Google Patent Teaches Software to Spot Glare on Scanned Documents
A bright streak across a scanned page can hide the very words you wanted to save. Google's filing describes software that catches…
Google Files Patent for Voice Typing That Fixes Misheard Names When You Spell Them
Voice typing turns "Khe Chai" into "kitchen," and you usually have to stop and fix it by hand. Google's patent application lets…
Google Files Patent for Edit Suggestions on Any Passage of an AI Answer
Google's patent application has an AI chatbot second-guess its own answer and hand you one-tap fixes for just the paragraph you highlight.…
Google Files Patent for Search That Learns From Your Circled Photo Corrections
Circle the wrong thing in a photo and today's search may happily look up the wrong thing. Google's patent describes a model…
Google Patents an AI That Turns a Vague Request Into a Full Social Media Campaign
Google's patent application describes an AI that rewrites your one-line request into a long, detailed brief before it writes anything, then checks…
Google Files Patent for Reusing a Chatbot's Past Work on Similar Questions
Google's patent filing describes a chatbot that remembers its earlier thinking. When your question is close to one it has seen before,…
Google Files Patent for Radar Gestures That Learn From Your Second Try
Wave at your smart display, get ignored, wave again: Google's patent treats that second try as a free lesson. The device saves…
Google Patents Vibrations That Tell You How Sure Its AI Is
Your phone could tell you how sure its AI is by how hard it buzzes, so a shaky answer feels different from…
Waymo Files Patent for Freeze-Frame Replays of Its Self-Driving Car's Decisions
Waymo's patent describes a way to freeze one moment of a self-driving car's decision-making and replay it later. The replay takes tens…
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