Google's New Patent Hides Smart Glasses Wiring Inside the Lens Itself
Google has a patent for smart glasses that ditch the internal wires running through the frame — and instead route electrical signals…
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Google's New Patent Stops Your Smartwatch from Getting a Bad Heart Rate Reading Mid-Run
Every time you check your heart rate mid-run, your smartwatch is fighting against the jostling of your own body. Google's new patent…
Google's New Patent Teaches Smart Glasses to Feel Your Voice, Not Just Hear It
Your voice isn't just sound — it also makes your jaw and skull vibrate. Google wants wearables to capture those vibrations and…
Google's New Patent Stops Always-On Screens from Burning In
Always-on displays are useful, but leaving the same pixels lit for hours causes uneven wear and burn-in. Google's new patent tackles that…
Apple's New Patent Wants to Let You Control Devices by Tilting and Flicking Them
Apple is working on a way to let you control your devices — or other nearby devices — simply by moving them…
Apple Patents a Triangle-Split Video Compression Technique
Apple has filed a patent for a video encoding trick that splits image blocks diagonally into triangles, letting a single index in…
Google Patents Earbuds That Detect Your Gestures by Listening to Your Ear Canal
What if your earbuds could tell when you nod, clench your jaw, or raise your hand — without any camera, touchpad, or…
New Patent Lets Speakers Amplify Audio Without Pairing
What if your Google speaker could pick up audio playing nearby — from a TV, a phone, or a laptop — and…
Microsoft Patents a Paper-Thin Lens That Makes Thermal Cameras See in Much Finer Detail
Thermal cameras — the kind that 'see' heat instead of light — have always needed bulky, expensive optics to produce a sharp…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Stop Lighting From Lagging in Real-Time 3D Scenes
Real-time 3D graphics has a persistent headache: recycle too much lighting data from the last frame and the scene looks laggy when…
Nvidia Patents a System to Automatically Calibrate Hundreds of Cameras at Once
Getting dozens — or hundreds — of cameras to agree on where they are in the world is one of the most…
Robot AI Learns From Demo Videos, Then Self-Improves Via Trial and Error
Teaching a robot to do something new is slow, expensive, and fragile. Nvidia's latest patent describes a method that shortcuts the process…
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