A New Adobe Patent Finds the Repeating Tile in Photos of Fabric and Brick
Cutting one clean, repeatable tile out of a photo of bricks or fabric usually takes trial and error. Adobe's patent application tries…
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Adobe Patents a Coin-Flip Shortcut for Drawing See-Through 3D Objects Faster
Drawing a see-through 3D object normally means sorting thousands of overlapping layers for every single pixel. Adobe's patent application flips a weighted…
A New Adobe Patent Lets You Reshape 3D Models by Typing What You Want
Adobe's filing lets you tell an AI 'add horns on top of the head' and watch a 3D character grow a pair,…
Google Files Patent for Video Call Blur That Doesn't Flicker When You Move
Anyone who uses background blur has watched it glitch: you lean over, and your messy room flashes into view for a moment.…
Microsoft Files Patent for Sharper Game Graphics That Don't Flicker or Leave Ghost Trails
When a game sharpens its picture using earlier frames, it can leave shimmering edges or smeared ghost trails. Microsoft's patent application tries…
IBM Files Patent for Letting Several People Share One Quantum Computer at Once
Quantum computers are so scarce that most run one person's job at a time, even when that job needs only part of…
Adobe Files Patent for Photo Editing That Changes Lighting and Backdrop From One Sentence
Type "snowy winter scene with morning lighting" and Adobe's patent application describes software that relights the object in your photo and paints…
Microsoft Patents an AI Recap That Reminds You What Happened Last Time You Played
Come back to a game after months away and you may have no idea what you were doing. Microsoft's patent has an…
Microsoft Files Patent for AI Design Tool That Puts Art Where You Ask
Ask an AI for a cat on the left and a dog on the right, and you may get the animals in…
IBM Files Patent for Showing Which Words or Image Areas Swayed an AI
Ask an AI why it called a sentence ungrammatical and you usually get a verdict with no reasoning. IBM's new filing describes…
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