Adobe Patents a Color Editor Where You Drag to Pick a Shade, Then Drag to Change It
Adobe is patenting a new way to edit colors in images — one where you drag across a graph to pick exactly…
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Apple's New Patent Wants to Take On Venmo With Group Payment Sharing
Apple is exploring ways to let multiple people coordinate and authorize financial transfers through shared user interfaces — a direct push into…
Samsung Patents a Payment System That Pushes Checkout Info to Nearby Screens
Samsung is patenting a payment setup where your device quietly mirrors transaction details to a second screen — think a merchant terminal,…
Samsung Patents a Fix for Typing Inside Virtual Machine Apps
Running an Android app inside a virtual machine on a Galaxy device and need to type something? Right now, that's a messier…
Samsung Patents a System That Figures Out Which Button You Actually Meant to Tap
Fat-finger problems on touchscreens have plagued smartphones since day one. Samsung is now patenting a method that detects when your tap lands…
Samsung Patents a Camera System That Flattens Curved-Object Scans Automatically
Ever tried to scan a business card lying at an angle and got a warped, unreadable mess back? Samsung is filing a…
IBM Patents an Automated System for Moving Containers Between Servers Quickly
Moving a containerized app between servers is one of those tasks that sounds simple but quietly involves a dozen manual steps that…
Sony Patents a System for Keeping Local and Cloud Game Instances in Sync
Imagine playing a co-op game with a friend on the same couch — but your copy of the game is running locally…
Google Patents a More Efficient Way to Compress Video Transform Blocks
Google is filing patents on the low-level math that makes video smaller — and this one targets the specific order in which…
Apple Patents a Navigation System That Changes Directions Based on What Your Camera Sees
Instead of saying "turn left in 200 feet," Apple's newly filed patent describes a navigation system that looks through your camera and…
Apple Patents a System That Pre-Loads Your Data Before a Call Connects
What if your iPhone could quietly fetch everything it needs about an incoming caller — your contact card, shared photos, call preferences…
Google Patents Ride-Hailing Integration Directly Inside Google Maps
Google is patenting a way to pull live ride estimates from third-party services like Uber or Lyft directly into Google Maps —…
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