Sony's New Patent Splits Heavy AI Work Across Several Phones at Once
Running a heavy AI model on a phone is slow and drains the battery fast. Sony's new patent describes a way to…
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Qualcomm's New Patent Gives Your Phone a Simulated World to Find Itself Indoors
Your phone's GPS struggles indoors and in dense cities because radio signals bounce unpredictably off walls and buildings. Qualcomm's new patent proposes…
Qualcomm's New Patent Stops AR Glasses from Filming What You're Not Looking At
Your AR headset is doing a lot of work to show you the real world in high detail — but what if…
Qualcomm's New Patent Teaches Cameras to Focus Using Their Own HDR Data
Autofocus struggles most when the light in a scene is all over the place — one patch too bright, another too dark.…
IBM's New Patent Replaces CAPTCHAs With a Live Video Test to Spot Bots
Forget ticking boxes of traffic lights — IBM's latest patent describes a live video call where an AI watches you complete physical…
IBM's New Patent Wants AI to Hunt Down the Hidden Defects Disrupting Its Quantum Computers
Quantum computers are plagued by tiny, unpredictable energy traps inside their hardware — and IBM wants a machine learning model to hunt…
IBM Patents a Way to Snap Quantum Computer Chambers Together Like Building Blocks
Quantum computers have to run at temperatures colder than outer space — and right now, that's a serious bottleneck on how big…
IBM Patents an AI That Designs App Screens From a Requirements List
IBM has patented a system where an AI reads a list of app requirements and then designs the screens — buttons, menus,…
IBM's New Patent Moves Malware Scanning Off the Main Server to a Dedicated Device
IBM wants to take the heavy lifting of malware scanning off your main server and hand it to a dedicated storage device…
IBM's New Patent Finds a Better Performer and Puts Them in Your Training Session
IBM is patenting a system that watches you practice a skill, grades your performance in real time, then finds someone who does…
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