Adobe Files Patent for Training AI to Spot Actions in Compressed Video
Hours of store camera footage are expensive to send anywhere. Adobe's filing describes teaching an AI to figure out what people are…
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Qualcomm Files Patent to Stop Your Store Map Dot From Jumping Aisles
Your phone can tell roughly where you are in a store, but the dot on the map often hops across the aisle…
Samsung Files Patent to Shrink Photo Data by Removing Each Patch's Average Color First
Before Samsung's AI squeezes a photo, it subtracts the average brightness from every small patch, leaving only the fine detail to compress.…
Samsung Files Patent to Stop Multi-Camera Phones From Dropping Image Data
Every time a multi-camera phone finishes reading one picture, it has to pause the other cameras for a moment, and if the…
Qualcomm Files Patent to Let a Phone Tell a Headset How Much Video to Send
Qualcomm describes a headset that doesn't have to guess how much video protection it needs. The phone on the other end tells…
Apple Files Patent to Keep Headset Video Flowing When the Mobile Network Jams Up
Apple's patent application describes a way to flag traffic jams in the data stream feeding a headset, so the video pieces everything…
Sony Files Patent for Hearing Aids That Play a Test Tone to Catch Earwax Clogs
Sony's new patent application has a hearing aid play a test tone to itself, then listen for what went wrong: a clogged…
Apple Files Patent to Stop Phone Plan Downloads From Failing When Storage Runs Out
Your phone's SIM chip is surprisingly cramped, and when a new plan doesn't fit, today's download just fails. Apple's filing describes a…
Qualcomm Files Patent to Keep Film Grain Looking Right on Old and New Video Players
Film grain is the speckled texture that makes a movie look like a movie, and your player has to recreate it on…
Microsoft's New Patent Removes the Central Traffic Bottleneck From AI Computing Hardware
Inside the racks that run AI, one big traffic-directing switch eats power and space. Microsoft's filing proposes wiring small switches into each…
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