Nvidia Patents a Fix That Stops Invisible Light From Corrupting Photo Colors
Every time a camera sensor detects both visible light and infrared light, it risks confusing the two — turning a crisp, accurate…
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Nvidia Patents Technology That Fixes Color Distortion Its Own Image Processing Creates
Every time a camera chip tweaks a pixel to look better — adjusting for infrared light, for example — it quietly makes…
Nvidia Patents a Lighting Cache System That Speeds Up Ray-Traced Scenes
Ray tracing looks stunning but it's brutally expensive — your GPU has to figure out how every light source affects every surface…
Tesla Patents a Dashboard Panel That Hides Its Graphics Until You Need Them
Tesla is patenting a way to make dashboard panels look like blank, unmarked surfaces — until a backlight switches on and reveals…
Tesla Patents a Windshield Washer Pump That Monitors Its Own Fluid Level
Tesla is patenting a windshield washer pump that also checks whether the reservoir is running low — folding two separate parts into…
OpenAI Patents a Custom AI Chip That Stacks Memory Directly on the Processor
Moving data around inside a chip burns a surprising amount of energy — and OpenAI thinks the fix is to stop moving…
Amazon Patents an AI Inspection Station That Checks Warehouse Robots for Damage
Amazon wants to automate one of the more tedious jobs in a warehouse: checking whether the mobile shelving units that ferry your…
Amazon Patents a System That Directs AI Tasks to the Right Chip Automatically
Running AI models efficiently means knowing which chip should handle which job — and Amazon wants that decision made in hardware, not…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Shares Overlapping Image Edge Data to Accelerate Processing
When a chip processes an image in chunks, the edges of each chunk are a headache — every chunk needs to peek…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Pre-Loads AI Data Before It's Asked For
The slowest part of running AI on a chip is often just waiting for data to arrive from memory. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Patents a Way to Measure How Far Away a Pedestrian Is Using a Moving Camera
Most cameras can see a pedestrian. Knowing exactly how far away that person is — without a laser or a radar —…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor That Uses Nanoscale Lenses to Split Light for Autofocus
Samsung is rethinking how a camera sensor captures light — not with traditional glass optics, but with microscopic pillars smaller than a…
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