Meta Patents a Point-and-Click Remote for Your Entire Smart Home
What if you could control any smart device in your home just by pointing at it, the way you'd click a link…
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IBM Patents an AI That Grants and Revokes Developer Access While Bugs Get Fixed
Every time a developer fixes a bug, someone has to manually hand out access to the right systems and then remember to…
Sony Patents a Two-Fence Safety Zone for Guiding Drones and Robots Around Objects
Instead of giving a drone or robot one boundary to respect, Sony's patent describes wrapping a target object in two separate invisible…
Sony Patents a Two-Pass System for Reading LiDAR Sensor Data Faster
Sony has filed a patent for a LiDAR image-analysis system that only does the expensive, high-accuracy work on parts of a scene…
Google Patents a Way to Edit Photos Using Plain-English Instructions
Google has filed a patent for an AI that lets you edit photos by typing what you want changed, no Photoshop skills…
Nvidia Patents a Surround-View Camera Display That Reshapes Around Nearby Objects
Parking cameras already give you a bird's-eye view of your car, but the geometry is fixed and can warp objects in ways…
Microsoft's New Patent Covers Technology That Reads Text Characters in Parallel
Every time a computer reads structured text, it moves through it one character at a time, each step waiting on the last.…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Flip Between Phone Screens by Tilting Your Device
What if flipping between sections of an app felt less like tapping through menus and more like tilting a physical card to…
Adobe Patents a Browser-Based Screen Recorder That Captures Only What You Choose
Most screen recorders capture everything or nothing. Adobe is filing a patent for a system that lets you pick exactly which window,…
Nvidia Patents a Camera View System That Switches 3D Modes While You Park
Your car's around-view camera already stitches together a bird's-eye picture of the ground. Nvidia is filing patents on a system that makes…
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