IBM Files Patent for a Meeting Tool That Tells Others When You're on Speakerphone
Your laptop would listen to its own speaker, then tell everyone else in the meeting when your call is leaking out loud.
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Waymo Files Patent for Cars That Find Their Own Stop Spot Without a Painted Line
Plenty of residential streets have a stop sign and no painted line, so Waymo's patent teaches its cars to pick a sensible…
Google Files Patent for a Voice Layer That Lets Its Text Chatbots Talk
Google describes a way to make a chatbot that only types back into one you can talk with, and it does it…
Google Files Patent for Teaching Speech Recognition to Learn From Its Own Best Guesses
When your phone mishears you, a better answer can be sitting lower on its own list of guesses. Google's patent trains speech…
Google Files Patent for Cars That Notice When Road Construction Moves the Lane Lines
Google's patent turns ordinary cars with cameras into lane-line watchers that notice when construction shifts the paint, then tells the map to…
Sony Files Patent for 3D Screens That Flash Their Backlight to Cut Ghosting
Sony's filing describes a 3D screen that stays dark while its pixels are still changing, then flashes its backlight only once the…
Apple Files Patent for a Door Lock That Checks Which Way You Walk Up
Apple has a patent application for a door lock that unlocks itself as you walk up, but only if you come from…
Google Files Patent for Captions That Know Exactly When Each Word Was Said
Speech-to-text can get nearly every word right and still show your captions at the wrong moment. A new Google patent application tries…
Google Patents a Speech Recognizer That Types Fast, Then Fixes Its Own Mistakes
Your phone's voice typing has to pick between fast and right. This Google patent tries to deliver both by letting a second…
A New Qualcomm Patent Blends Every Car Sensor Into One View of the Road
Self-driving software usually passes its work down a chain of separate programs, and each handoff is a chance for an error. Qualcomm's…
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