Google Patents a Retrieval-Augmented System for Visual Question Answering
You snap a photo of a broken appliance and type 'how do I fix this?' — Google's new patent describes a system…
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Google Patents a Fingerprint-Tap Method for Adding Trusted Users to Devices
What if you could add your partner to your phone's fingerprint unlock just by both touching the sensor at the same time?…
Waymo Patents an Efficient Attention Neural Network for Predicting Agent Trajectories
Predicting where every car, cyclist, and pedestrian around you will be in the next five seconds is one of the hardest problems…
Google Patents a Pre-Assembly Calibration System for Modular AR Displays
Building AR glasses is basically a precision nightmare — tiny misalignments between cameras, displays, and sensors ruin the illusion entirely. Google's new…
Google Patents a Text-Only Image Editor That Fine-Tunes Itself on Your Photo
Most AI image editors make you draw a mask, provide a sketch, or carefully crop the area you want changed. Google's UniTune…
Google Patents an AI Pipeline That Reformats Images by Expanding Then Cropping
Resizing an image to a new aspect ratio usually means ugly letterboxing or painful cropping. Google's patent describes a two-step AI approach:…
Google Patents Temperature-Corrected Skin Autofluorescence for Wearables
Your skin naturally glows when hit with the right wavelength of light — and that glow can reveal a surprising amount about…
Google Patents an AI Assistant That Reschedules Your Smart Home Routines to Save Energy
Google is patenting a version of its AI assistant that watches your smart home routines and proactively suggests better times to run…
Google Patents a Self-Improving ML System for Prioritizing App Updates
Google is patenting a system that doesn't just decide which app updates to install first — it continuously pits two competing ML…
Google Patents a Group-Based System for Blocking Sensitive Data Transfers Between Apps
Google is patenting a way to treat apps as trusted clusters — so sensitive data inside one group of apps can't quietly…
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