Microsoft Patents AI That Colors Heat-Detecting Footage Differently for Each Object Type
Thermal cameras show you heat — but they can't tell you what's hot. Microsoft's new patent describes a system that figures out…
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Microsoft Patents a Paper-Thin Lens That Makes Thermal Cameras See in Much Finer Detail
Thermal cameras — the kind that 'see' heat instead of light — have always needed bulky, expensive optics to produce a sharp…
Microsoft Patents a Fix for Mismatched Colors When AI Removes Objects From Photos
Anyone who's tried to swap text in a photo using an AI editor has seen it: the replaced area looks slightly off,…
Meta Patents a Way to Copy Motion From One Video and Paste It Into a 3D Scene
Imagine being able to take the swaying dance moves from one video clip and automatically apply them to a completely different 3D…
Gesture and Voice Can Now Work Together to Control AI Assistants
Talking to an AI assistant is useful — but what if you could point at something while you speak, and the AI…
Meta Patents a Way to Teach Gesture Recognition Across Different Sensors at Once
Training an AI to read hand gestures is hard — and doing it separately for every type of sensor (camera, radar, EMG…
Meta Patents AR Glasses That Read Your Eye Position Without Extra Hardware
Meta is working on a way to track exactly where your eyes are looking inside a pair of AR glasses — not…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Stop Lighting From Lagging in Real-Time 3D Scenes
Real-time 3D graphics has a persistent headache: recycle too much lighting data from the last frame and the scene looks laggy when…
Nvidia Patents Technology That Matches What Multiple Cameras See of the Same Scene
When dozens of cameras watch the same scene from different angles, getting them all to agree on where something is turns out…
Nvidia Patents a Location-Aware System for Reading Traffic Signs
A stop sign in Tokyo looks nothing like one in Texas. Nvidia's latest patent tackles that exact problem — teaching an AI…
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