Waymo Patents a LiDAR System That Adapts to Fog in Real Time
Fog is one of the hardest problems for self-driving cars — and Waymo's new patent describes a LiDAR system that doesn't just…
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Google Patents a Smarter Way to Measure Crosstalk in 3D Displays
When you put on a 3D headset and see ghosting — a faint double image bleeding from one eye's view into the…
Google Patents the 'Teacher-Student' AI Training Method Behind Model Compression
Three of the biggest names in deep learning — Hinton, Dean, and Vinyals — are on a Google patent for knowledge distillation,…
Google Patents Smarter Uplink Scheduling for XR and Cloud Gaming on 5G
When you're streaming a cloud game or wearing an XR headset, your phone is constantly negotiating radio airtime with the cell tower…
Google Patents a Privacy-Preserving Ad Attribution System Using Attestation Tokens
Google is trying to solve one of mobile advertising's most contentious problems — figuring out which ad caused you to install an…
Google Patents a Polarization-Recycling Optical System for LCoS Displays
Most of the light in an LED-based display gets thrown away before it ever reaches your eye — Google's new patent is…
Google Patents a Hybrid Auto-Focus System That Prioritizes Close-Up Subjects
Getting a sharp photo of something small and close — a flower petal, an insect, a piece of food — is surprisingly…
Google Patents a Privacy Filter That Scrubs Your Voice Queries Before Sharing With Third-Party AI Assistants
When you ask a voice assistant something personal, who else hears it? Google is patenting a system that decides — automatically —…
Google Patents a Dual-Timeline Scrubbing Interface for Security Camera Footage
Scrubbing through hours of security camera footage is genuinely painful — Google thinks two timelines are better than one. This patent describes…
Google Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter Image Inpainting
Google is patenting a more principled way to train AI models that remove unwanted objects from photos — the kind of 'erase…
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