Apple Patents a Virtual Page Where Flat Maps Rise Into 3D
Apple's patent imagines a floating sheet in your headset where a marked patch of a flat map turns into 3D buildings, then…
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Google Files Patent for Smart Glasses That Remember Where You Left Your Keys
Google has filed a patent application for smart glasses that watch your day and remember it for you. Later you can ask…
Google Patents a Camera Sensor That Counts People Without Keeping a Single Photo
Google has filed a patent application for a sealed camera sensor that counts the people in a room, then erases every frame…
IBM Patents Technology That Loads the Next Computing Job Before the Current One Finishes
IBM's patent application goes after a dull but costly quantum computing problem: the dead time between jobs, when the machine waits for…
Salesforce Patents Chatbot Memory That Shrinks Old Topics and Keeps the Relevant Ones
Most chatbots either re-read your whole conversation or forget everything except the last few messages. Salesforce's filing describes a third option: rebuild…
Microsoft Patents Tiny Liquid Pumps to Spread Heat Across a Device's Shell
Microsoft's filing describes a thin liquid pump and tiny channels inside a device's casing that carry heat away from the hot spot…
Samsung Patents a Robot Brain With One Mode for Reaching and Another for Gripping
Reaching for a carrot and gripping it are different jobs, and Samsung's patent application gives a robot a separate AI for each.…
Sony Files Patent for a Robot Pet That Borrows Tricks Other Robots Learned
Sony wants your robot dog to stop repeating itself, so it hooks the robot up to a server that remembers what thousands…
Microsoft Files Patent for AI Programs That Skip English and Talk in Numbers
Right now, AI programs that work together write each other notes in English, which the next program has to reread and reinterpret.…
Sony Files Patent for a Motorized Thumbstick That Fakes Clicks and Holds Its Position
Sony has filed a patent for a controller thumbstick with its own motors, so the stick can push back, hold still, or…
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