Amazon's New Patent Wants to Bolt Sensors onto Regular Cars to Train Its Self-Driving AI
Zoox wants to train its self-driving AI without putting its own autonomous vehicles on every road first — and the trick is…
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Amazon's New Patent Teaches Its Echo Speakers to Know When You're About to Speak
What if your Echo could tell you were about to speak to it before you even said 'Alexa'? Amazon's latest patent describes…
Tesla's New Patent Teaches Its Cars to Read Where Every Lane Leads
Tesla is patenting a way for its cars to figure out — using cameras alone — which lanes lead where, which merge,…
Nvidia's New Patent Maps a Car's Interior Before Deciding If the Driver Is Drowsy
Before a car's camera system can reliably tell if a driver is drowsy or a child is left in the back seat,…
Nvidia's New Patent Teaches Its Voice AI to Grade Its Own Work
Teaching an AI to understand speech and generate speech at the same time — and letting each half grade the other's homework…
Nvidia Patents an AI That Reads Images the Way You'd Describe a Painting
Nvidia has filed a patent for a training approach that teaches AI to understand images by slicing them into tiles, running each…
Nvidia's New Patent Fits Custom Outlines Around Objects That Boxes Miss
Most self-driving car cameras draw a plain rectangle around every obstacle they spot. Nvidia's new patent describes a way to fit a…
Meta's New Patent Moves the Heavy Graphics Work Off Your AR Glasses
Meta is patenting a way to take the hardest graphics work off an AR headset entirely — by offloading it to a…
Meta's New Patent Lets Its AR Glasses Identify Anything You Look At
Point your eyes at something, and Meta's glasses could instantly tell you what it is — no button, no voice command, just…
Meta's Latest Patent Lets Drivers Control Their Car by Looking at It
Imagine glancing at your car's climate vent and flicking your finger to crank up the heat — no touchscreen, no voice command…
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