Sony Patent Teaches AI Assistants to Ask You Fewer Annoying Questions
Nobody likes a chatbot that peppers you with questions. Sony is patenting a system that watches how you respond over time and…
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Intel Patents a Brain-Inspired Chip Approach to Finding the Fastest Route Through Complex Networks
Intel thinks the way to solve one of computing's most common problems, finding the shortest path through a web of connected points,…
Intel Files Patent for Robots Controlled by Plain-English Voice Commands
What if you could tell a robot to 'move smoothly to the left and slow down near the edge' and it actually…
Intel Patent Fixes Washed-Out Faces in Photos Taken Against Bright Light
Taking a photo of someone standing in front of a bright window almost always ends in disappointment: either their face is too…
Intel Patents an AI System That Decides How to Move Tasks Between Servers
Every time a data center shifts a running task from one server to another, something can go wrong. Intel's latest patent describes…
Intel Patent Predicts Device Interrupts to Reduce Processor Power Waste
Instead of keeping a processor on standby waiting for a device to call, Intel wants the chip to predict exactly when that…
Intel Patents a Bluetooth Broadcast That Hides Private Messages Inside Public Signals
Bluetooth is usually an all-or-nothing deal: one device broadcasts, everyone nearby receives the same thing. Intel's new patent describes a way to…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Reads Emotion in Your Voice to Animate a Face
Nvidia is building an AI that listens to how you speak, not just what you say, and uses the emotion it detects…
Intel Patents a Video Filter That Knows Which Parts of a Frame to Sharpen
Most video sharpening tools treat every pixel the same way, which means they accidentally sharpen things that were meant to look soft,…
Intel Patent Boosts AI Video Upscaling Through Smarter Codec-Aware Processing
AI video upscaling looks great, but it's expensive to run on every single frame. Intel's new patent describes a system that only…
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