Nvidia Patents an AI Pre-Screen That Makes Video Files Smaller Before They're Compressed
Before a video even gets compressed, Nvidia's new patent wants an AI to clean up each frame so the compressor has an…
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Nvidia Patents Software That Applies Visual Effects at Low Resolution Then Scales Them Up
Nvidia's latest patent describes a way to apply expensive visual effects to a small, low-resolution image first, then use a neural network…
Smart Glasses Patent Blocks Accidental Touch Commands
Every time you put on or take off a pair of smart glasses, your fingers brush the frame and accidentally trigger something.…
New Patent Tracks Exact Server Cost of Every Software Request
Every time a developer's app pings a Microsoft cloud service, that request burns CPU cycles and memory. Microsoft is patenting a system…
Microsoft Patent Splits AI Model Layers Across Chips by Their Strengths
Running a massive AI model is expensive partly because today's systems don't always match workloads to the right hardware. Microsoft has filed…
Microsoft Patents a System That Maps How Office Teams Stop Talking After a Reorg
Every time a company reorganizes, informal communication channels break down. Microsoft is patenting a tool that can actually measure that breakdown in…
Microsoft Patent Tricks Software Into Thinking It’s Running on a Private Network
Testing software that was built for a private, locked-down network is a genuine headache when your test environment runs on public cloud…
Microsoft Patents a Desktop System for Tagging and Sorting Screenshots with Emoji
Microsoft is patenting a way to slap emoji or text labels directly onto screenshots as you take them, then have Windows automatically…
Microsoft Patent Routes AI Customers to Better-Matched Server Instances Based on Usage
When you ask an AI to transcribe audio one minute and analyze an image the next, the underlying hardware you're running on…
Microsoft Patent Reuses Voice AI Training Data Across Different Microphone Configurations
Training a voice AI from scratch for every new microphone setup is expensive and slow. Microsoft's new patent describes a way to…
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