Google Patents a System That Tracks Intent to Cut AI Hallucinations
AI hallucinations often happen because a model loses track of *who said what* in a conversation. Google's latest patent tries to fix…
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Google Patents a Learnable Sparsity Mask Technique for Efficient ML Models
Most AI models carry a lot of dead weight — literally. Google's new patent describes a way to teach a model, during…
Google Patents Real-Time View Synthesis for Streaming 3D Video
Google is patenting a system that takes a bunch of ordinary 2D camera images and, in real time, stitches them into a…
Waymo Patents a Hybrid LiDAR System That Untangles Speed and Distance Readings
When a self-driving car's sensor sees several objects at once, knowing how far away something is doesn't help much if you can't…
Google Patents a Voice Dictation System That Corrects Its Own Transcription Errors
Google is patenting a dictation system that doesn't just transcribe what you say — it listens back to its own output and…
Google Patents a Smarter Filtering System for Video Compression
Every time you stream a video, your device is making thousands of tiny guesses about what each block of pixels should look…
Google Patents a Phone Incognito Mode That Swaps Your Cellular Identity
Browsers have had incognito mode for years — Google now wants to bring that same concept to your phone's cellular identity, swapping…
Google Patents a Smart System for Hiding Broken Display Subpixels
Every display has a few bad pixels hiding in it — Google's patent describes a controller that can automatically route around broken…
Waymo Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter AV Lane Changes
Changing lanes is one of the trickiest things a human driver does — and it turns out it's just as hard for…
Google Patents a Smarter Warp Motion Signaling System for Video Compression
Google is filing patents around a codec trick called 'Warp Delta Mode' — a way to compress video more efficiently by reusing…
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