Sony Patents a Camera That Tilts Itself to Keep You Located
Sony is patenting a system that physically adjusts a camera's angle on the fly to improve how well a device knows where…
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Meta Patent Targets Weak Blood-Oxygen Readings on Wearables With Automatic Fix
Blood-oxygen sensors on wearables often fail silently when light signal gets too weak, giving you a bad reading or no reading at…
Microsoft Patents a Circuit That Monitors Tiny Display Lights Without Burning Them Out
Micro-LEDs are tinier and brighter than the pixels in modern best screens, but testing them without damaging them is a real engineering…
Disney Patents a Way to Project Images Directly Into Natural Crystals
Disney is patenting a projection system that sends images into natural crystals, specifically minerals like ulexite and selenite that already have unusual…
AMD Patents a Way to Shift Power From Memory to Processors on the Fly
AMD is working on a way to temporarily steal power from your computer's memory and hand it to the processor when the…
Samsung Patents a Smart Ring That Knows Which Way You're Wearing It
A smart ring that doesn't know which way it's sitting on your finger can give you wildly wrong health readings. Samsung's latest…
Intel Patents a Faster Path to Sharper Streaming Video Without Burning CPU Time
A filter inside the next-generation AV2 video standard does a great job of improving picture quality, but it's so slow to configure…
Xilinx Patents an AI Chip That Swaps Multipliers for Memory Lookups
Multiplication is one of the most power-hungry operations in any AI chip. Xilinx thinks it has found a way to do less…
Sony Patent Uses Grayscale Data to Sharpen Event-Based Pixel Edges
Most camera sensors blur the edges of fast-moving objects. Sony is patenting a way to fix that by combining two completely different…
Disney Patents a System That Keeps Projected Images Locked to Moving Objects
When a character costume or a parade float moves, projected images tend to slip out of alignment. Disney has filed a patent…
Microsoft Patents a Hidden Screen Refresh That Fights Flicker While Your Laptop Sleeps
Your laptop's screen may be degrading every time it sits in sleep mode. Microsoft's new patent describes a fix that runs invisibly…
AMD Patents Speed Boost for AI Chips That Process Training Data Faster
Reading data from the wrong direction is one of those quiet performance killers inside AI chips. AMD's new patent tackles it by…
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