Adobe Patents a Split-Layer AI Relighting System for Photos
Changing the lighting in a photo after the fact sounds simple, but shadows on your subject and shadows on the background follow…
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Adobe Patents a Neural Network System for Cleaner Subject-Selection Masks
Anyone who has tried to cut out a subject with multiple disconnected parts — like a person holding a fork — knows…
Adobe Patents a Hybrid Attention Method to Boost Large Language Model Capabilities
Most AI language models are trained to either understand text or generate it — Adobe's new patent describes a training method that…
Adobe Patents Depth-Aware Occlusion Detection for Object-Centric Photo Editing
When you ask an AI photo editor to move, remove, or replace an object, the trickiest part is figuring out what's hiding…
Adobe Patents an Entity-Aware Video Reframing System for Smarter Cropping
Every time you crop a landscape video into a vertical TikTok or Instagram Reel, someone — or something — has to figure…
Adobe Patents an AI System That Converts Webpages Into Custom Code
Imagine taking any existing webpage and instantly getting clean, platform-ready code for your CMS — no copy-pasting, no manual reformatting. That's the…
Sony Patents Angle-Aware Pixel Design to Fix CMOS Sensor Sensitivity Drift
Light doesn't always hit a camera sensor straight on — and that angle matters more than most people realize. Sony is patenting…
Sony Patents a Lattice-Matched Substrate Design for Cleaner micro-LED Displays
Most micro-LED displays are plagued by tiny crystal defects introduced when the semiconductor is moved off its original growth substrate. Sony's patent…
Sony Patents a Metamaterial Optical Layer That Boosts Display Brightness
Sony's semiconductor division has filed a patent for a display architecture that sandwiches a metamaterial layer above light-emitting pixels to redirect scattered…
OpenAI Patents a System for Forcing AI Responses Into Structured Formats
When you ask an AI to return JSON and it returns... a paragraph of prose instead, that's a real problem for production…
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