Apple Patents Instant Visual Filters on Live Camera Video for Headsets Without Lag
When you look through an AR headset and see the real world overlaid with digital content, every frame of that live camera…
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Apple Patent Details System for Controlling User Access to Device Features
Imagine watching a 2D preview of whatever your kid sees in their VR headset and tapping something on your phone screen to…
Apple Patents a Gesture Shortcut to Bring Voices Forward on AirPods
Apple is trying to make it faster to hear the person in front of you when you're wearing AirPods. A new patent…
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Google Patents an AI Feedback Loop for Scaling Biotech Fermentation Processes
Growing microbes in a lab flask is one thing. Making them work the same way in a 50,000-liter industrial tank is notoriously…
Google Patents an AI That Tips Off YouTube Creators Before a Subscriber Milestone Hits
Google has filed a patent for an AI system that watches a YouTube channel's signals and tells the creator, before it happens,…
Google Patents a Three-Way Accuracy Check Before Serving You a Video Ad
Before an ad runs next to a video, Google wants to run that video through three separate tests to make sure the…
Google Patent Covers Training AI Models While Keeping Private Data Truly Private
Training an AI on sensitive data, like medical records or financial transactions, usually means the raw answers used to teach it are…
X Development Files Patent for an AI That Tells Bioengineers Which Genes to Tweak
X Development, Alphabet's moonshot lab, is patenting an AI system that combines published biology research with a company's private fermentation data to…
X Development Patents an AI System That Ranks Microbes by How Confident It Is in Them
Most lab screening tools pick winners by looking at average results. X Development's new patent wants to pick winners by also measuring…
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Google Patents Data Normalization Technology That Helps AI Disregard Lab-Specific Inconsistencies
When AI models learn from data collected in different labs or on different days, they often pick up on irrelevant technical quirks…
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