Apple Patents a Cross-Device Screen System That Reacts to Where You Place Your Phone
What if placing your iPhone on your iPad's screen automatically let the two devices share content — and the iPad could tell…
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Google Patents a Real-Time Video Distortion Removal System Using Masked Frames
Ever noticed how background-blurring effects in video calls sometimes cause your arm to flicker, or your hair to warp? Google is filing…
Google Patents a Smarter Filtering System for Video Compression
Every time you stream a video, your device is making thousands of tiny guesses about what each block of pixels should look…
Google Patents a Server-Side Streaming System for Digital Twin 3D Models
Google is patenting a pipeline that takes heavy 3D digital twin data, simplifies it on the server using parallel processing, and streams…
Google Patents a Faster Probability Model Init for Video Compression
Every time a video codec starts encoding a new frame, it needs a statistical 'best guess' about what the image data will…
Google Patents a Smarter Probability Model Selection System for Video Compression
Every time you stream a video, a codec is making thousands of statistical guesses per frame. Google's new patent tries to make…
Google Patents a Smarter Prediction Scheme for 3D Mesh Compression
3D meshes are made of millions of tiny triangles, and compressing them efficiently means guessing vertex positions as accurately as possible before…
Microsoft Patents a Distributed Antialiasing Engine for Smoother Cloud-Streamed Graphics
Jagged edges are the telltale sign of a game or app running on someone else's hardware. Microsoft's new patent proposes splitting the…
Microsoft Patents Automated Data Lineage Extraction from Database Query Logs
Every time a database query runs, it leaves a trail — and Microsoft wants to automatically turn that trail into a full…
Microsoft Patents a System for Navigating Screenshot Interfaces with a Keyboard
What if you could navigate a screenshot of a desktop interface using just arrow keys or a gamepad? Microsoft is patenting exactly…
Microsoft Patents a System That Backs Up Files Before You Delete Them
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that intercepts a file deletion in real time, ships the file to cloud storage…
Microsoft Patents an AI System That Summarizes Meeting Content You Missed While Distracted
We've all zoned out during a video call and quietly panicked about what we just missed. Microsoft is patenting a system that…
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