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<v 0>I've laid low, right. You know, until now I could be canceled after this. Hello,</v>

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I'm Robert Sachs.

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I'm a patent attorney and I've been practicing in the Silicon valley for over 30

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years. I've represented many of the companies in the valley that, you know,

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the names of,

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and some you don't as they were startups and they didn't get to their IPO today.

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We're gonna be looking at some interesting patents from Google.

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I'm gonna be talking about what the technology covers and how this may be useful

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or not in your life.

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The first patent we're gonna look at is from 2015 and it's for an odor

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removing device. Now, this is a very interesting contraption.

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What we see here on the left side of the screen is a fragrance submitting

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device. It's a small unit about this big, it's got a display screen on it,

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as you can see in the front, and it has a chamber,

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it has a fragrance material in there.

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And this thing can turn on and off and emit a fragrance because you may

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smell bad. And that's the key insight of this pattern.

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You may smell bad and you don't want to smell bad around people. You know,

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you're on your way. Home from the gym, you're all stinking and sweaty.

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And you gotta go from here to your office. And it turns out that someone,

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you know, in your social is gonna be on your route.

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That's this little guy here in red, that's a defined person.

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The patent talks about figuring out where you are,

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figuring out where that person is and giving you an alternate route.

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So you avoid going anywhere near anybody, you know,

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while you smell well, you know,

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I'm not so certain about this technology. If you know, you have this issue,

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you probably would be wearing deodorant to begin with and your friends would

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probably already be tolerant of you. What kind of world is it? We live in that.

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We're so worried about what we smell like,

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that we're willing to offend other people that we don't know,

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but not willing to offend the people we know and care about.

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This seems something out of black mirror. I don't know about you,

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but I don't think this one is gonna make it to market.

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As you may know, Google spun off Waymo to develop autonomous vehicles.

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One of the issues with autonomous vehicles is without a driver,

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they're sometimes gonna possibly hit somebody.

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And what are you gonna do about that?

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Google came up with a very interesting solution and that's basically what you

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could call sticky car adhesive,

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vehicle front end for mitigation of secondary pedestrian impact.

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The problem being is that when a car hits a person,

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the person bounces off and hits something else.

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So let's not have them bounce off.

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What we're gonna do is we're gonna have a sticky layer.

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This is some adhesives on the front end of the car. So the patent shows these,

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this front end, the car, those little dots are some adhesive material,

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and thankfully that's not exposed.

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You don't see that adhesive material it's behind a coating. What?

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Google calls an eggshell light coating. Okay.

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So you've got this eggshell light coating on the car that is meant to be

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instantaneously breakable. So when the car hits a person, the coating is broken,

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exposing the layer to adhere the colliding object upon that initial.

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So basically you're gonna stick to the cough so you don't go flying off. Okay.

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That's a little bit odd. I think there's some serious problems with that.

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First of all, if this layer is so instantaneously breakable,

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it's gonna break all the time, right? You're gonna bump into something.

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You're gonna break it. I can imagine kids walking down the streets,

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looking at people's hoods and slapping cats and dogs and sneakers on there.

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So stuff is gonna get on there all the time. It's gonna be really expensive.

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And then what happens when you actually are hit by this? Are you now stuck here?

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Do you have to take off of your clothes to get off of this car? I don't know.

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Doesn't seem like a very practical solution. And again,

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something that's just gonna make repairing cars all the more expensive.

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I wouldn't wanna be stuck on anybody's hood. I rather just go flying off.

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Thank you. This is an interesting technology. Yeah, not so much.

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Now we're gonna look at some more car related safety technology. And again,

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I think this reflects a certain lack of understanding about what people are

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looking for in a car here.

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What we have is reducing the surface rigidity of a vehicle.

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So now we actually have an illustration of a car. It looks like a car,

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but you can see the top section here is the view of the bumper.

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It's this protruding section and behind it are cables

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or some kind of tension elements on the top one.

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You've got a curve surface and you've got these cables and winches and the

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cables and the winters work together.

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And they can change the shape of that service and they could make it less rigid

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under impact collision. On the bottom one, we have a corrugated bumper,

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same idea. When the car senses an impact,

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it will reduce the tension in those tension members.

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So the rigidity of that portion of the vehicle is reduced.

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What you could call soft car car, slams into something.

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The car detects that there's a collision and makes it softer,

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reduces the rigidity of that. Now that may work, boy,

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it's gonna make for some bulky, ugly looking cars,

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just the additional mass and weight from this,

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that alone is gonna undermine the whole utility of it.

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A heavier car is the more energy it has when it hits something.

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So you may make the car softer, but now it's a heavier car.

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So it's gonna do as much damage as it did before. So it doesn't really pan out.

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I don't think this is one's coming to market.

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One of the truths of our times is that a service is free.

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It means you are the product.

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Google has taken this to the next level in a smart home system.

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What they call privacy aware, personalized content for smart home.

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And the idea is this you're in your house.

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You have books and media and other things lying around.

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You've got a camera system and that camera system is observing what you're

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doing. So when you pick up a book,

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it sees that you picked up a book and it can scan the title of that book,

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for example,

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or a magazine that you're reading or something that's on television.

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And it will train a neural network to learn your interactions between that

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type of media and how you consume it. So what time of day, where you are,

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what room you're in,

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all of the content that you interact goes in a neural network to learn your

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behaviors as time goes on, that thing is smart.

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And it determines where you are in your house,

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looks at the content that you have near you, and then makes recommendations.

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So what we see here in this illustration is it says,

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I noticed you have a copy of the godfather by your bed.

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The movie based on this novel is showing tonight on channel.

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What have you coming.

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<v 3>To my house that I cannot do?</v>

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<v 0>This is smart advertising.</v>

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And the idea is it selects that content without communicating that information

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to a content server in a distant network,

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the patent is full of examples of advertising,

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how the system could detect, for example, you're playing guitar.

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And so it shows you an advertisement for guitar on the television or that you

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are interested in basketball,

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cuz you're reading a basketball magazine and shows you an advertisement for

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basketball camp. This is all about monetizing,

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what people are doing in their personal lives.

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And that it's privacy aware because it doesn't transmit the OCR information

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about what it has seen to a network offsite.

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So it all lives locally on your house, but what the patent doesn't address.

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And I think this is of concern is what happens to the information about your

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actual behaviors. It has to send that information somewhere,

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particularly to be able to promote your advertising information.

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And there's nothing in the patent that says that this information about your

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behaviors is not transmitted. For example, to third parties,

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to people who are advertising your content to you. So yes,

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it's privacy aware in one side,

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it doesn't send out the behaviors themselves that neural network has learned,

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but it doesn't really seem to protect the privacy of what you're actually doing

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and how that behavior is gonna be used by third party advertisers.

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That's not privacy protection in my mind.

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The last patent we're gonna look at from Google is a medical technology patent.

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I think this is the most interesting one and has the most potential for really

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benefiting people in the future. Google calls, this interocular device,

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I would call this active eye.

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What you see here in yellow is a part of the lens capsule.

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That's the part of your eye where actually has the lens and inside that's a

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fluid filled sack.

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You could say the fluid is removed and a polymeric soft material is placed in

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there along with an active device and active lens and that polymeric

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material, then bonds the lens to the inside of the lens capsule.

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There's a sensor that detects when you are attempting to

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focus, that's called accommodation.

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And so that bonds together with the active lens.

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And then there's a controller that detects when you are trying to focus and then

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will adjust the lens to do the focusing for you.

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So you can think of this as a it's an active eye or a bionic eye.

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Now this is very interesting technology.

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It can solve a lot of problems for people who are nearsighted,

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who have lost their vision, who have cataracts,

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all sorts of eye problems can be remedied by this technology that said

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it also opens up the prospect of our old friend GORT. Maybe he had that.

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<v 2>Wow.</v>

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<v 0>It certainly seems to make us a little bit closer to our robot overlords.</v>

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