New Patent Lets Phones Share Location Signals Without Cell Towers
What if your phone could figure out where it is relative to other nearby phones, without ever pinging a cell tower? That's…
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Nvidia Patents an AI That Spots Distracted Drivers by Tracking Their Eye Movements Over Time
A single glance away from the road is easy to miss. Nvidia's new patent describes an AI that watches not just where…
Microsoft Patents a System for Catching AI-Generated Voices
As AI voice cloning gets cheaper and more convincing, Microsoft is building a detector that learns to spot synthetic speech by studying…
Samsung Patents a System That Logs Why Your Call Dropped During a 5G-to-4G Switch
Every time your phone fumbles a call while switching from 5G to an older 4G network, that failure mostly disappears into the…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Focus a Self-Driving Car's Attention on What Actually Matters
Self-driving cars generate enormous amounts of sensor data every second, but not all of it is equally important. Qualcomm's new patent describes…
Apple Patent Enables Devices to Identify Multiple Users and Trigger Personalized Services
Apple is exploring a way for its devices to recognize when a second person walks into view and automatically unlock or activate…
Nvidia Patents a More Accurate Way to Light Hair and Fur in 3D Scenes
Getting hair, fur, and fabric to look real in a 3D scene is one of the oldest headaches in computer graphics. Nvidia…
Salesforce Patents a System That Finds Which Searches Are Slowing Down Its Servers
When thousands of companies share the same database infrastructure, one badly written query can drag performance down for everyone. Salesforce's new patent…
Google Patent Aims to Let Augmented Reality Recognize Objects Without Draining Performance
Figuring out what's in a camera frame, a wall, a table, a person, takes serious processing power. Google's patent describes a way…
Nvidia Patents Software That Chooses How to Sharpen Your Blurry Images Faster
Choosing the right algorithm to reconstruct an image is usually a job for a human expert. Nvidia is filing patents on a…
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