Adobe Patents AI Fill That Compares Colors Twice to Reduce Patchy Results
When an AI fills in a missing chunk of a photo, getting the colors right is surprisingly hard. Adobe has filed a…
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Nvidia Patents an AI Plug-In That Translates Video Calls Into Sign Language Avatars
Nvidia has filed a patent for a plug-in that would sit inside any video conferencing platform and automatically translate spoken conversation into…
Meta Patent Reveals AR Glasses That Translate Text Before You Read It
Meta has filed a patent for AR glasses that translate foreign-language text in your surroundings before you consciously decide to read it,…
Nvidia Patents Software That Detects Which Way Objects Face in Photos
Knowing which way an object is pointing in a photo sounds simple, but it's one of the harder problems in computer vision.…
Samsung Patents an AI System That Tunes Its Own Photo Processing Steps
Every photo your phone takes passes through a chain of processing steps, and getting each step wrong can ruin the final image.…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Cuts Out Objects in Images Without Being Told What They Are
Teaching a computer to recognize exactly which pixels belong to a car, a dog, or a traffic cone normally requires thousands of…
Sony Patents a Camera System That Detects Surface Damage Using Filtered Light Angles
Sony is patenting a way for cameras to detect tiny surface defects, scratches, or material wear by photographing an object under different…
Adobe Patents a Way to Turn Hand-Drawn Sketches Into Editable Design Files
Designers have always started with paper, then rebuilt everything from scratch on screen. Adobe is filing patents for a system that could…
Samsung Patents Technology to Keep Smart Sensors Online When Battery-Saving Shutdown Kicks In
Billions of IoT sensors run on a stripped-down cellular mode called NB-IoT, and when they have to turn that mode off, they…
Apple Patent Reveals iPhones Scanning Rooms and Displaying Symbolic Object Icons
Instead of showing you a live camera view of your room, Apple has patented a scanner that strips the feed away entirely…
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