Apple Patents a Linked Display System That Senses How Two Devices Overlap
Apple is exploring a system where two devices — think an iPad laid on top of a MacBook — can detect exactly…
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Apple Patents Memory-Efficient Streaming Convolutions for Its Neural Engine
Running a deep neural network on a phone chip means constantly fighting a memory bottleneck. Apple's latest patent describes a way to…
Apple Patents a Transformer-Based Filter for Wireless Oscillator Circuits
Deep inside every wireless chip is an oscillator — a circuit that generates the precise clock signal your phone uses to tune…
Apple Patents a Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolyte That Ditches a Key Solvent
Apple is experimenting with a battery electrolyte recipe that removes ethylene carbonate — a near-universal ingredient in lithium-ion cells — and replaces…
Apple Patents a System That Detects When Your Device Is in a Case and Dials Back Its Radio
Your iPhone already knows when it's in Low Power Mode — Apple's new patent wants it to also know when it's stuffed…
Apple Patents a Method for Interleaving Chunked Entropy Data Streams
Apple has filed a patent describing a way to weave two separate data streams together at the chunk level — slotting pieces…
Google Patents a Simplified Filter Derivation Method for Hardware Video Codecs
Video codecs can predict color information from brightness data with impressive accuracy — but the math is often too slow for dedicated…
Waymo Patents a Hybrid LiDAR System That Untangles Speed and Distance Readings
When a self-driving car's sensor sees several objects at once, knowing how far away something is doesn't help much if you can't…
Google Patents a Smart System for Hiding Broken Display Subpixels
Every display has a few bad pixels hiding in it — Google's patent describes a controller that can automatically route around broken…
Waymo Patents a Machine Learning System for Smarter AV Lane Changes
Changing lanes is one of the trickiest things a human driver does — and it turns out it's just as hard for…
Google Patents a Smarter Echo Canceller for Wireless Speaker Calls
When you take a call through a Bluetooth or Wi-Fi speaker, your phone's microphone picks up your own voice bouncing back off…
Google Patents a Side Sideband Interface for Flexible Die-to-Die Chip Communication
As chips get built from multiple smaller dies stacked or tiled together, getting those dies to talk to each other reliably —…
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