Qualcomm Patents Flat Camera Tech That Judges How Far Away Objects Are
What if you could get 3D depth sensing from a camera module that's essentially flat? That's the idea behind Qualcomm's new patent…
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Qualcomm Patent Targets AI Memory Bottlenecks With Fused GEMM-RoPE Kernel
Every time an AI model processes language, it runs the same two math operations back to back, and each handoff burns time…
IBM Patents a 3D Printing Method That Uses Sound Waves to Float Powder Into Place
IBM is patenting a 3D printing approach that floats powder particles in mid-air using sound waves, then locks them into objects with…
Nvidia Patents a System That Keeps AI Calculations Running Without Idle Delays
GPUs are only useful when they're actually computing, not sitting idle waiting for data to arrive. Nvidia's latest patent tackles exactly that…
Qualcomm Patents a More Efficient Way for AI Chips to Handle Complex Math
AI chips spend a surprising amount of energy doing complex math that could be approximated more cheaply. Qualcomm's new patent describes a…
Fast Light Field Rendering Patent Reuses Cached Frame Data
Rendering a 3D scene from dozens of angles at once is expensive work, and graphics hardware has to repeat a lot of…
Patent: Wrist Sensor Band That Snaps Into Correct Position Automatically
Meta is designing a wristband that reads electrical signals from your muscles, and it needs the sensors to land in exactly the…
Sony Patent Stacks Photon Counting Stages to Sharpen Low-Light Images
Sony is patenting a way to add up light readings from multiple rows of image sensor pixels before the data ever leaves…
Wearable Tech Patent Detects How Skin Shifts Against a Sensor
Your skin is a surprisingly good electrical signal. Microsoft wants to use that fact to let a wearable device know the moment…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Lets Wearable Displays Pivot in Two Directions
Apple has filed a patent for a hinge that lets a wearable device's arm flex in two different directions at once, which…
Sony Files Patent for Display Screens With Built-In Temperature Sensors Per Block
Instead of treating a screen as one big panel with one temperature reading, Sony wants to monitor the heat in each individual…
Qualcomm Patents a Processor That Runs Two AI Calculations Simultaneously in One Step
AI models do a lot of math, and right now that math often requires separate trips to different parts of a chip.…
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