Sony Patents a System That Applies Your Hearing Aid Profile to Any Audio Device
Hearing aids are calibrated precisely for each person's hearing loss, but that personalization disappears the moment you pick up a pair of…
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Xilinx Patents an On-Chip Data Bus That Confirms Message Delivery Order
When different parts of a chip send each other instructions, there's no guarantee the messages arrive in the right order. Xilinx's new…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Build 3D Scenes from Just Two Photos
Most 3D scene-reconstruction systems need dozens of photos taken from every angle. Qualcomm's new patent describes doing it with just two.
Samsung Patents a Navigation System That Stops Robots From Getting Stuck in Dead Ends
Every robot vacuum owner has watched their device bump helplessly in a corner for minutes on end. Samsung's new patent describes a…
Nvidia Patents a Rendering System That Remembers Which Lights Matter Most
Every frame in a ray-traced scene forces a GPU to guess which of hundreds of lights is worth calculating. Nvidia's new patent…
Google Patents a Chip Layout That Splits AI Work Across Shared Memory Tiles
Google has filed a patent for a custom chip architecture that lets multiple processing units share the same memory pool while running…
Xilinx Patents a Multi-Ring Light Modulator for Faster On-Chip Data Links
Xilinx has filed a patent for a new kind of optical modulator that uses multiple tiny light-bending rings wired together to push…
Intel Patent Lets Users Set a Custom Lifespan for Their Chips
What if you could tell your processor to last exactly five years, and it would adjust itself to do just that? That's…
Qualcomm Patents Tiny Built-In Speakers That Push Sound More Precisely
Qualcomm is working on a microscopic speaker component that shapes airflow through its own base, using a stack of precisely sized layers…
Nvidia Patents a Fix for How Games Track Motion Through Glass and Water
When a character runs behind a glass window or swims underwater in a video game, the engine often gets confused about where…
AMD Patents a Way to Let Programmers Control Number Scaling Inside AI Chips
When an AI chip does math with compressed numbers, tiny rounding errors can pile up fast. AMD is patenting a way to…
Intel Patents a Fix for Screen Flickering During Display Setting Changes
Every time your laptop changes its display settings, such as switching refresh rate or adjusting brightness, the screen can flicker or blank…
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