Google's New Patent Teaches Smart Glasses to Feel Your Voice, Not Just Hear It
Your voice isn't just sound — it also makes your jaw and skull vibrate. Google wants wearables to capture those vibrations and…
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Google's New Patent Stops Always-On Screens from Burning In
Always-on displays are useful, but leaving the same pixels lit for hours causes uneven wear and burn-in. Google's new patent tackles that…
Apple's New Patent Wants to Let You Control Devices by Tilting and Flicking Them
Apple is working on a way to let you control your devices — or other nearby devices — simply by moving them…
Apple Patents a Triangle-Split Video Compression Technique
Apple has filed a patent for a video encoding trick that splits image blocks diagonally into triangles, letting a single index in…
Google Patents Earbuds That Detect Your Gestures by Listening to Your Ear Canal
What if your earbuds could tell when you nod, clench your jaw, or raise your hand — without any camera, touchpad, or…
New Patent Lets Speakers Amplify Audio Without Pairing
What if your Google speaker could pick up audio playing nearby — from a TV, a phone, or a laptop — and…
Microsoft Patents a Paper-Thin Lens That Makes Thermal Cameras See in Much Finer Detail
Thermal cameras — the kind that 'see' heat instead of light — have always needed bulky, expensive optics to produce a sharp…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Stop Lighting From Lagging in Real-Time 3D Scenes
Real-time 3D graphics has a persistent headache: recycle too much lighting data from the last frame and the scene looks laggy when…
Nvidia Patents a System to Automatically Calibrate Hundreds of Cameras at Once
Getting dozens — or hundreds — of cameras to agree on where they are in the world is one of the most…
Nvidia Patents a Fix That Stops Invisible Light From Corrupting Photo Colors
Every time a camera sensor detects both visible light and infrared light, it risks confusing the two — turning a crisp, accurate…
Nvidia Patents Technology That Fixes Color Distortion Its Own Image Processing Creates
Every time a camera chip tweaks a pixel to look better — adjusting for infrared light, for example — it quietly makes…
Nvidia Patents a Lighting Cache System That Speeds Up Ray-Traced Scenes
Ray tracing looks stunning but it's brutally expensive — your GPU has to figure out how every light source affects every surface…
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