Qualcomm Patents a Way to Run AI Calculations Inside the Memory Chip Itself
One of the biggest drags on AI performance is simply moving numbers back and forth between memory and a processor. Qualcomm's latest…
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Qualcomm Patents a Display System That Corrects Pixels on the Fly
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a display processor that decides in real time whether to apply a pixel-correction filter, skipping it…
IBM Patents a Wearable That Charges Itself from Sunlight, Body Heat, or Motion
IBM has filed a patent for a wearable device that never needs to be plugged in, at least in theory. It charges…
IBM Patents Image Compression That Cuts Storage Without Sacrificing Picture Quality
IBM's new patent describes a way to compress images by doing the heavy, approximate math cheaply and the fine-tuning math carefully, mixing…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Works Harder to Fix Weak Cellular Signals
Samsung's latest patent describes a modem chip that measures the quality of the wireless signal it's receiving and then decides how much…
Samsung Patents a Three-Panel Foldable Phone That Bends at Two Points
Samsung is filing patents for a device that folds not once, but twice, using three separate panels that get progressively narrower as…
Samsung Patents a Way to Route Chip Data Through Ordinary CPU Registers
Most chips need special instructions to feed data to an AI accelerator. Samsung's new patent skips the custom plumbing entirely by hijacking…
Samsung Patents a Detachable Lens Cap That Keeps Unwanted Light Out of VR Headsets
Light leaking around the edges of a headset lens is one of those small but annoying problems that pulls you out of…
Samsung Patents a Camera Coating That Reduces Unwanted Light Bounce Between Colors
Samsung is patenting a new internal layer for image sensors that uses two zones of the same material, each bending light differently,…
Samsung Patents an Antenna That Redirects Its Own Signal on the Fly
Most antennas point one way and stay there. Samsung is patenting a design that can flip its signal direction just by toggling…
Samsung Patents a System That Steers Sound Toward Your Busiest Screen
When you have three screens going at once, which one should be making noise? Samsung's latest patent answers that question automatically, by…
Samsung Patents an AI System That Turns Off Spare Antennas to Save Battery
Your phone is almost certainly running more antennas than it needs right now, and that extra radio hardware drains your battery. Samsung's…
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