Samsung Patents a Way to Wake Only the Car Camera That's Actually Needed
Instead of running every car camera all the time, Samsung's new patent describes a system that uses ultra-wideband radar to spot and…
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Zoox Patents a Way to Stop Self-Driving Cars from Missing Thin Objects
When a self-driving car scans the world in 3D, thin or sparse features like a truck's side mirror or a bike's handlebar…
Zoox Patents a Dual-Mode Path Planning System for Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving cars have to plan paths in two very different ways depending on what they're doing — and Zoox is patenting a…
Zoox Patents a System That Hears and Sees Emergency Vehicles at Once
Spotting an ambulance in traffic is easy for a human who can both see its flashing lights and hear its siren —…
Samsung Patents a Temperature-Aware Storage System Built for Self-Driving Cars
Flash memory behaves differently when it's hot or cold — and in a car, that variance can be extreme. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Patents an In-Car Display That Shows Notifications Based on Where You're Looking
Samsung is working on a car display that watches your eyes and decides whether — and how — to show you a…
IBM Patents a Drone-Based System That Extends a Car's Vision in Fog or Snow
Fog and heavy snow are genuinely hard problems for self-driving cars — the sensors that work great in sunshine can go nearly…
Qualcomm Patents a Map-Aware System That Sends Intersection Safety Alerts
Intersections are where most serious crashes happen, and a lot of safety systems struggle with curved roads. Qualcomm is filing a patent…
Qualcomm Patents a Context-Aware Object Detection Filter for Self-Driving Cars
Most object detectors treat every part of the frame equally — but Qualcomm's new patent lets a car's vision system raise or…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Spot Dirty or Failing Cameras in Self-Driving Cars
What if a self-driving car could notice that one of its cameras was covered in mud — before it made a bad…
Qualcomm Patents a Mapping System That Pools Visual Data Across Multiple Vehicles
Instead of each car building its own map from scratch, Qualcomm's patent describes a system where vehicles pool their visual observations through…
Nvidia Patents a LiDAR-Only System That Tracks Moving Objects for Self-Driving Cars
Most self-driving perception systems lean heavily on cameras and radar to track how fast other objects are moving. Nvidia's new patent describes…
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