Adobe Patents an AI System That Deconstructs How Light Hits a Scene
Lighting is the hardest part of photo editing to fake — and Adobe's latest patent is aimed squarely at that problem. The…
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Adobe Patents an AI That Blends Any Subject Into Your Photos Seamlessly
Imagine pointing at a photo of your pet turtle and telling an AI to place it naturally into a picture of a…
Adobe Patents a Graph-Based Context Retrieval System for Large Language Models
When you ask an AI a question that spans dozens of documents, most systems just do a keyword-style search and hope for…
Adobe Patents On-Device AI Content Generation Driven by Local Subscription Data
Adobe is filing for a system that personalizes digital content — think ads, recommended creative, or tailored offers — entirely on your…
Adobe Patents an Embedding-Driven Retrieval System for Generative AI Content
Adobe has patented a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline that converts a user's query into a mathematical embedding, hunts for similar data embeddings…
Adobe Patents a System That Generates Content When Real-World Events Happen
Adobe is patenting a system where a server watches the internet for real-world events, then automatically kicks your device's on-device AI into…
Adobe Patents a Pipeline That Builds 3D Models From One Photo
Take one photo of an object, and Adobe's patented system reconstructs a full 3D model of it — no turntable, no depth…
Adobe Patents a System for Generating Consistent Characters Across AI Scenes
One of the most frustrating problems with AI image generators is that your character looks like a completely different person from one…
Qualcomm Patents a Context-Aware Screen Time Monitor That Weighs Your Environment
Your phone already tracks how long you stare at a screen — but Qualcomm is filing patents for a system that also…
Qualcomm Patents an ML Fallback System for Body Pose Tracking Failures
Qualcomm's new patent tackles one of the messiest problems in real-time body tracking: what happens when the physics engine gets it wrong?…
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