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Natural Conversations with AI Assistants Based on Speech Pauses

This patent describes a method for enabling more natural conversations with automated assistants. The core problem addressed is the unnatural, turn-based nature of current automated assistant interactions, which doesn’t reflect how humans...

Filters of Uncertainty

The inventor had always found noise oppressive. It crept into life unnoticed, like a shadow extending into every corner of existence. Sounds muddled together in a thick, indistinct soup, making clarity a distant memory. Conversations in crowded...

Example-Guided Image Inpainting Using Machine Learning Models

This patent describes a novel system and method for image inpainting, where missing or undesirable regions of an input image are filled in using guidance from a separate “guide image.” The core innovation lies in the use of machine...

The Loop

The inventor had long since given up on understanding time. Not because of its constancy or its flow—those, he could accept—but because of the loops. Loops that once promised acceleration, now seemed to catch him in their grip, repeating themselves...

Silent Turns

The inventor awoke one morning plagued by an unbearable burden—a peculiar tedium, thick as fog, enveloped the countless players tethered to electronic gaming systems. Each one stared dully at endless repetitions, the spark of excitement fading turn...

The Restriction Machine

In the trembling dawn of the production floor, where the rhythmic chime of machines was the only music allowed, the inventor toiled in silence. For years he had watched as human frailty compromised mechanical efficiency. Operators—flawed...

The Labyrinth of the Unseen Gaze

Gregor sat in his chair, motionless. Before him, the e-book lay open, the letters marching across the glowing screen in strict formation. Yet Gregor did not read. Or rather, he read, but not in the way expected of him. His eyes moved unpredictably...

The Judgment of the Refractory Walls

The Problem: An Obsolescent Enigma The factory roared in perpetual agony, its belly devouring metals, melting them into primordial chaos. At the heart of this relentless transformation stood the refractory linings of the smelting vessels, their duty...

The Case of the Missing Connections

In the dimly lit corridors of the European Patent Office, where paper trails stretched like the winding paths of an ancient labyrinth, a solitary application whispered its technical aspirations into the ears of examiners. The application, filed by...

AI-Powered Calendar Event Conflict Resolution

This patent discloses systems, methods and devices for prioritizing calendar events with artificial intelligence to resolve scheduling conflicts. When a request to schedule a new event clashes with an existing one, the system compares their...

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