Google Patents an AI System That Tells Advertisers How to Split Their Budget Across Platforms
If you've ever stared at a spreadsheet trying to figure out whether to spend more on YouTube or TikTok, Google thinks it…
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Apple Patents a System Where AirPods Announce Themselves From Their Charging Case
Apple's latest patent describes a surprisingly simple idea: when you put your wireless earbuds into their charging case, the case tells them…
Apple Patents an AI That Automatically Reframes Video Around Any Subject
Imagine shooting a video where the person you're filming keeps moving around the frame, and your editing app repositions the crop on…
Disney Patents Tech to Run Theme Park Robots Directly From Animation Data
Disney's animators already describe character motion as smooth mathematical curves on a timeline. A new patent wants those exact curves to control…
ATI Technologies Patents a Fix for Misaligned Isometric Game Images
AI image generators are great at creating game art, but terrible at making sure every tile lines up at the same angle.…
ATI Technologies Patents a Way to Cut Wasted Ray Tracing Tests in 3D Scenes
Ray tracing makes 3D graphics look stunning, but it can waste enormous processing power testing light rays against boxes that don't really…
AMD Patents a System That Auto-Compresses Data When AI Chips Share Too Much at Once
When dozens of AI chips need to share data simultaneously, mismatched data sizes can stall the whole operation. Xilinx's new patent describes…
AMD Patents a Way to Stop Its Ray Tracing Hardware From Asking for the Same Data Twice
When thousands of rays hit the same surface at the same time, AMD's graphics hardware can end up asking for the exact…
AMD Patents a Graphics Chip Memory System That Only Loads What It Needs
AMD has filed a patent for a graphics memory technique that lets the GPU claim address space on paper without actually consuming…
IBM Patents an AI System That Keeps 3D Printers on Track Mid-Print
A 3D print job can fail because the room got too warm, the filament shifted, or a vibration knocked something slightly off.…
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