Google Patents a Smarter Filtering System for Video Compression
Every time you stream a video, your device is making thousands of tiny guesses about what each block of pixels should look…
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Google Patents a Phone Incognito Mode That Swaps Your Cellular Identity
Browsers have had incognito mode for years — Google now wants to bring that same concept to your phone's cellular identity, swapping…
Google Patents a Smart System for Hiding Broken Display Subpixels
Every display has a few bad pixels hiding in it — Google's patent describes a controller that can automatically route around broken…
Waymo Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter AV Lane Changes
Changing lanes is one of the trickiest things a human driver does — and it turns out it's just as hard for…
Google Patents a Smarter Warp Motion Signaling System for Video Compression
Google is filing patents around a codec trick called 'Warp Delta Mode' — a way to compress video more efficiently by reusing…
Google Patents a Smarter Echo Canceller for Wireless Speaker Calls
When you take a call through a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi speaker, your phone's microphone picks up your own voice bouncing back off…
Google Patents Smarter Fall Detection for XR Headsets That Ignores Dropped Devices
Your XR headset could one day call 911 after a car crash — but only if it can tell you were actually…
Google Patents a System That Scrubs Opt-Out Content From AI Responses
What happens when an AI generates an answer using content from someone who explicitly said 'don't use my data'? Google's new patent…
Google Patents a Server-Side Streaming System for Digital Twin 3D Models
Google is patenting a pipeline that takes heavy 3D digital twin data, simplifies it on the server using parallel processing, and streams…
Google Patents ML System That Packs More Workloads Onto Fewer Servers
What if your servers could safely host more workloads than they're technically 'supposed' to handle? Google is patenting a machine learning system…
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