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…
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Every time you stream a video, your device is making thousands of tiny guesses about what each block of pixels should look…
Google is patenting a pipeline that takes heavy 3D digital twin data, simplifies it on the server using parallel processing, and streams…
Every time a video codec starts encoding a new frame, it needs a statistical 'best guess' about what the image data will…
Every time you stream a video, a codec is making thousands of statistical guesses per frame. Google's new patent tries to make…
3D meshes are made of millions of tiny triangles, and compressing them efficiently means guessing vertex positions as accurately as possible before…
Jagged edges are the telltale sign of a game or app running on someone else's hardware. Microsoft's new patent proposes splitting the…
Every time a database query runs, it leaves a trail — and Microsoft wants to automatically turn that trail into a full…
What if you could navigate a screenshot of a desktop interface using just arrow keys or a gamepad? Microsoft is patenting exactly…
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that intercepts a file deletion in real time, ships the file to cloud storage…
We've all zoned out during a video call and quietly panicked about what we just missed. Microsoft is patenting a system that…
While Meta's AI assistant is off processing your request, you're just... waiting. This patent describes a system that turns those dead seconds…
Managing a modern AI datacenter means keeping track of thousands of servers, network links, and live performance metrics — all at once.…
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