Sony Patents a Guide That Pinpoints Exactly What Is Draining Your Battery
Sony is patenting a step-by-step on-screen guide that tells you exactly which app or habit is hurting your phone battery, why it's…
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Microsoft Patents a Memory-Access Rule That Speeds Up Video Encoding Chips
Every time you stream a video or join a video call, a chip somewhere is frantically copying blocks of pixels around to…
Samsung Patents a Projector That Automatically Frames Its Own Picture
Keystone correction has been a manual chore for decades. Samsung's new patent describes a projector that reads the wall in front of…
Microsoft Patents a Computing System That Uses Light From Transparent Displays as Its Processor
Instead of sending data through chips in the usual way, Microsoft is exploring whether the light emitted by a group of transparent…
Samsung Patents Tiny Glass Cuts That Stop Foldable Phone Screens From Cracking
Cracking glass is the nemesis of every foldable phone, and Samsung's answer is to engineer tiny, precisely sized gaps right into the…
Qualcomm Patents a Screen That Moves Buttons Out of the Way When You Fold It
Foldable phones are a hardware story that software keeps failing to finish. Qualcomm's new patent describes a system that automatically rearranges the…
Samsung Patent Shows Three-Panel Phone That Automatically Rearranges Apps When Unfolded
Samsung is thinking carefully about one deceptively hard problem with foldable phones: what happens to your apps when you unfold the thing?…
Samsung Patents a Flexible Smartwatch Screen That Moves Notifications Based on Your Wrist Angle
Samsung is working on a smartwatch that knows which way your wrist is turned and shifts what appears on screen to match,…
Google Patents a Dual-Sensor Camera That Sharpens Only the Moving Parts
Google has filed a patent for a camera system that uses two sensors working as a team: a fast, low-resolution lookout that…
Qualcomm Patents a Fix for Out-of-Sync Video When Using Wireless Earbuds
Every wireless earbud adds its own tiny processing delay before you hear a sound, and that gap is exactly why lips on…
Sony Patents a Pixel Design That Reads Light Two Ways at Once
Sony is patenting an image sensor where every pixel simultaneously feeds two separate circuits, potentially allowing a single sensor to capture both…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Insert Extra Video Frames Without Touching Your Game
Nvidia's newest patent describes a system that steps in between your game and your display, generating extra frames the game never actually…
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