Qualcomm Patents a System That Stops Updating Your Watch When Its Screen Goes Dark
When you're listening to music through earbuds and your smartwatch screen is off, why should your phone keep sending playback updates to…
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Qualcomm Patents Zoom-Aware Rectification for Stereo Camera Pairs
When you zoom in on a dual-camera phone, the stereo math that powers depth sensing quietly breaks — Qualcomm's new patent is…
Qualcomm Patents GPS-Assisted Motion Estimation for 3D Point Cloud Compression
Compressing 3D LiDAR data is brutally hard — the scene changes every millisecond and every point in space needs to move with…
Sony Patents a Thermal Throttle for In-Car Cabin Monitoring Cameras
A car parked in the summer sun can turn into an oven — and that's a real problem for the cameras and…
Sony Patents a Cost-Volume System for High-Accuracy ToF Depth Estimation
Time-of-Flight sensors are fast but fuzzy — they trade spatial resolution for speed. Sony's new patent describes a way to squeeze much…
Sony Patents a Multi-Camera System That Shows Every Camera's Shooting Range at Once
Managing a dozen cameras at a live event means constantly guessing what each one is covering. Sony's new patent describes a system…
Sony Patents a System for Adding Realistic Rolling Shutter Distortion to CG Images
When a camera sensor reads out pixels line by line instead of all at once, fast-moving objects appear skewed or wobbly —…
Intel Patents Parallel Huffman Decoding to Compress LLM Weights on GPU
Running a large language model on a GPU requires moving enormous amounts of weight data around — and that bandwidth cost is…
Intel Patents a Way to Send Pre-Compiled Commands Directly to GPU Hardware
Every time your GPU runs a task, the graphics driver spends time translating instructions into hardware commands. Intel's patent describes a way…
AMD Patents a Runtime GPU Shader Scheduler That Learns From Past Frames
AMD is filing a patent for a GPU scheduling system that watches how your games actually run — across multiple frames —…
Apple Patents an Optical Sensing System That Tracks Stylus Tilt, Hover, and Rotation via Light
Apple is exploring a way to track a stylus using light rather than traditional capacitive touch — and the system can detect…
Nvidia Patents a GPU Method for Splitting Tensor Operations into Parallel Paths
Tensor operations are the heartbeat of modern AI — but certain flavors, like the ones used in physics-aware neural networks, are notoriously…
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