Sony Patents a Tile-Based Hierarchical Map System for Real-Time 3D Streaming
Sony is patenting a system that breaks 3D scene data into tiles and resolution layers, streaming only the pieces your current viewpoint…
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Sony Patents a Shared Logical Address System to Speed Up Console Boot Loading
Sony is patenting a way to make your console's secondary processor pre-load downloaded data in the background — using the exact same…
Sony Patents a Controller That Logs You Into Your Console Using Your Phone
Sony is exploring a login system where your PlayStation controller detects that your phone is nearby and automatically handles the sign-in —…
Sony Patents a Floor-Card-Reading Toy That Teaches Kids to Program
Sony Interactive Entertainment is patenting a toy vehicle that drives over physical cards laid on the floor — each card encoding a…
Sony Files Patent for a System That Remembers Your Speaker Layout
Sony Interactive Entertainment has patented a way for an information processing system — almost certainly a game console or cloud gaming service…
Intel Patents a Robot That Guesses Object Weight From Your Posture
Before a robot grabs something from you, it needs to know how heavy it is — and Intel thinks the best way…
AMD Patents a Real-Time Debugger That Freezes GPU Partition Switching
Debugging a GPU that's simultaneously serving multiple virtual machines is a bit like trying to read a spinning roulette wheel — AMD's…
Xilinx Patents Fine-Grained Task Preemption for Neural Processing Units
When two AI tasks compete for the same chip, the more urgent one usually has to wait its turn. Xilinx's new patent…
AMD Patents a Data-Parallel Method to Decompress Dense 3D Triangle Meshes on the GPU
Rendering a detailed 3D scene means feeding a GPU millions of triangle coordinates — and that data has to arrive fast. AMD's…
Apple Patents an Apple Watch That Detects Surface Taps Using Light
Apple is working on an Apple Watch that can tell when your hand taps a table, desk, or any surface — without…
Apple Patents a Curve-Based Method for Generating HDR Gain Maps
Apple is filing patents around one of the quieter but genuinely tricky problems in modern photography: how do you let an HDR…
Apple Patents a System That Picks the Nearest Speaker When You Hit Play
What if your iPhone just knew to play music through the kitchen HomePod because that's the room you walked into? Apple's new…
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