Samsung Patents a Watch Face That Designs Itself Around Your Photos
Pick a photo, and your Samsung watch figures out the rest. A newly published Samsung patent describes a system that reads your…
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Intel Patents a System That Shifts AI Processing Strategies Mid-Task
Running AI on a chip is rarely one steady operation, it's a series of phases that each have different demands. Intel has…
Qualcomm Patents a Cross-Check System That Catches False Location Readings
GPS can confidently report the wrong location, and the system has no idea. Qualcomm's new patent tackles that uncomfortable truth by making…
Sony Patents a Microscopic Metal Shell Surface That Controls Light Color by Design
Sony is patenting a way to build surfaces out of millions of microscopic hollow metal shells, each tuned to interact with a…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Split AI Model Work Between Secure and Low-Cost Chips
Running a powerful AI model is expensive, partly because it demands fast, premium chips at every step. Microsoft has filed a patent…
Samsung Patents a Projector That Responds to Your Hand Gestures
Point at a screen, wave your hand, and watch related content appear on the nearest empty wall. That's the core idea behind…
Samsung Patents a Way to Fill in Dropped Audio Using Your Other Earbud
When one of your wireless earbuds loses its audio connection for a split second, the result is a distracting gap or glitch.…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Remembers Who You Were Filming
Samsung is working on a camera system that tags the subjects in your video while you record, then uses those tags later…
Apple Patents a Method for Storing Sound Objects and Their Positions Separately
Getting sound to feel like it's coming from the right place, whether through headphones or a speaker system, requires a lot of…
Samsung Patents a Flexible Display That Wraps All the Way Around Your Wrist
Most smartwatch screens stop at the face. Samsung is patenting a design where the display keeps going, wrapping across both straps and…
Samsung Patents a Way to Decode Both Color Channels in Video From a Single Data Signal
Every video you watch encodes color information in multiple separate streams, and decoding each one independently costs time and file space. Samsung's…
Google Patents a Curved Internal Speaker Channel That Routes Sound Around Camera Hardware
Getting a speaker and a camera to coexist inside a slim device housing is a genuine space puzzle, and Google thinks a…
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