Samsung Patents a System That Pauses Voice Filters Mid-Call Automatically
Samsung is patenting a voice-processing system that can apply audio filters to your voice during a phone call — and then automatically…
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Samsung Patents a Display That Balances Brightness Across Mixed Refresh-Rate Zones
When part of your screen is showing a video and the rest is showing a static calendar widget, they're running at very…
Samsung Patents a Gesture-Based Fallback for Unresponsive Smart Home Controllers
What happens when your smart home controller goes offline mid-use? Samsung is patenting a camera-based gesture system that steps in automatically —…
Samsung Patents Object-Aware Ambient Lighting for Its Displays
Samsung is patenting a TV that doesn't just glow — it figures out what's on screen, where specific objects are sitting in…
Samsung Patents a Touch-Correction System for Under-Display Camera Screens
Under-display cameras create a messy problem for touchscreens: the same cutouts that let light through to the camera also distort touch signals.…
Samsung Patents a Ring Wearable That Reads Your Health and Your Finger Gestures at Once
Samsung is designing a ring-shaped wearable where the display panel itself does double duty — firing light inward to read your pulse…
Nvidia Patents a Layer-Wise Method to Compress Vision-Language Models
Training a powerful vision-language model takes enormous compute — but deploying one on a robot, a car, or a modest GPU is…
Nvidia Patents a System That Spots Duplicate 3D Objects and Collapses Them Into One
Imagine a virtual city with ten thousand trees — most of them nearly identical. Nvidia's new patent describes a way to automatically…
Nvidia Patents a System That Teaches Robots to Learn From Every Failure
Every time a robot gets stuck and a human has to step in, that intervention is usually lost data — a missed…
Google Patents an Automated Camera Quality Scoring and Correction System
Google has filed a patent for a system that automatically grades individual aspects of a camera image — sharpness, exposure, color balance,…
Qualcomm Patents a Video Noise Filter That Knows When to Leave the Picture Alone
Most video noise filters run all the time, blurring fine detail even in clean footage. Qualcomm's new patent describes a system smart…
Qualcomm's New Patent Cleans Up the Seams Between Video Decoding Tiles
When your phone decodes a video, it quietly slices each frame into processing tiles — and the seams between those tiles can…
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