Adobe Patents Automatic Even-Spacing of Objects Along Any Curved Path
Spacing a row of icons or decorations evenly along a wavy or circular path is one of those tasks that sounds simple…
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Apple Patents a Floating Window That Makes AR Content Look Recessed in Space
Apple has patented a way to make content in a mixed-reality headset appear to sit physically behind a floating window cut into…
Sony Patents a System That Changes Your 3D Avatar to Fit Any Virtual World
Your cartoon avatar walks into a photorealistic virtual city and looks completely out of place. Sony's latest patent tries to fix that…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Line Up Camera Images With Depth Sensor Data
When a car's radar or lidar says an object is in one place and the camera says it's somewhere else, bad things…
Microsoft Patents a Tool That Shows How AI Systems Interpret Your Prompts on Video
Getting an AI to reliably do what you want is more art than science right now, and there's rarely a clear explanation…
AMD Patents a Faster Method for Wrapping 3D Objects to Improve Realistic Lighting
Ray tracing makes games and 3D graphics look stunning, but it's expensive to compute. AMD thinks it found a shortcut that cuts…
Nvidia Patents an AI System That Tracks Objects in 3D Across Multiple Cameras
Most security and tracking cameras give you a flat, two-dimensional picture of the world. Nvidia is patenting a system that stitches feeds…
Microsoft Patents an AI That Assembles Graphic Designs Layer by Layer
Arranging a poster or banner from scratch means deciding where every text block, image, and logo goes, and that judgment call is…
Microsoft Patents an AI Engine That Writes Animation Instructions From Plain Text
Describing an animation in words and having a computer build it automatically sounds like a small convenience, but it touches a genuinely…
Google Patents a Way to Aim Its AI Search at Only the Documents You Choose
Most AI search tools scan everything and hand you a pile of loosely related results. A new Google patent describes a system…
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