Apple Patents a More Efficient Way to Compress 3D Spatial Audio
Spatial audio sounds impressive until you have to store or stream it, at which point the file sizes become a real problem.…
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Samsung Patents an AI That Writes Its Own Training Videos to Caption the Unexpected
Most video captioning tools fall apart the moment they see something unusual. Samsung's new patent describes a system that solves that by…
Apple Patents a Faster, Leaner Method for Delivering Immersive Surround Sound
Recording sound in three dimensions produces enormous amounts of data describing exactly where every noise is coming from. Apple's new patent is…
Adobe Patents Technology to Automatically Cut Out Moving People in Videos
Cutting a moving person out of a video is one of the most tedious jobs in post-production. Adobe has filed a patent…
Google Patents a Voice Assistant That Can Navigate to Places You're Not Even Looking At
Most voice navigation only works with the spot you're already looking at on the map. Google's new patent describes a system that…
Apple Patents a Way for Siri to Prioritize Your Timers Over Everyone Else's
When multiple people in a household each set a timer, whose gets announced first? Apple is patenting a way for its digital…
Nvidia Patents a Multi-Camera System That Tracks Objects Across an Entire Space in 3D
Keeping track of a single person across dozens of cameras in a busy space is a problem that stumps most systems today.…
Nvidia Patents a Self-Checking System That Keeps Cars Accurately Within Their Lanes
Self-driving cars fail, in part, because a single lane-detection system can be confidently wrong. Nvidia's latest patent describes running several of those…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Cuts Power Use by Slowing Down During Idle Memory Tasks
Every time your phone's memory chip is busy working through a command, the controller talking to it is still running at full…
Sony Patents a Way to Compress Spatial Audio by Filling In the Gaps
Sony has filed a patent for a system that transmits only a fraction of the audio data needed for full 3D sound,…
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