Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Speeds Up Small Shapes in 3D Graphics
Every 3D scene is built from millions of triangles, and tiny ones have always caused outsized headaches for GPUs. Qualcomm's new patent…
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Intel Patents Hardware That Runs AI Calculations Using Less Memory and Power
Intel is patenting the internal plumbing of an AI processor that handles a compact number format called FP8, which lets chips do…
Sony Patents Wheels Within Wheels That Let Robots Roll in Any Direction
Most wheels can only go forward or backward. Sony is patenting a wheel built from smaller wheels nested inside each other, so…
Qualcomm Patents a Dual-Buffer Approach to Compressing 3D Point Cloud Data
Qualcomm is filing patents on a more efficient way to compress 3D point clouds, the dense data format used in LiDAR scanning,…
Smart Glasses Hinge Patent Seals Out Water and Dust
Folding the arms on a pair of smart glasses is a surprisingly tricky engineering problem when water is involved. Meta's latest patent…
Sony Patents an Image Sensor That Knows When to Stop Collecting Light
Most camera sensors collect light for a fixed window of time and hope for the best. Sony's new patent describes a sensor…
New Wristband Patent Cuts Noise in Muscle Signal Detection
Meta is building wristbands that can read the electrical signals your muscles produce, and this patent reveals a specific trick for making…
AMD Patents a Chip Design That Cuts Out the Data-Transfer Middleman for AI Math
Xilinx has filed a patent for a chip architecture that lets certain AI calculations skip a built-in data-routing layer entirely, reducing delays…
Intel Patents a Chip That Resizes Video and Blurs Backgrounds in One Step
Every time a video call blurs your background, your device is doing two separate jobs: resizing the image and blurring the right…
Qualcomm Patents a Faster Way to Turn 3D Scene Data Into Flat Images
Qualcomm has filed a patent describing a structured pipeline for converting chunked 3D spatial data into normal 2D images on-device, a capability…
IBM Patents a Method to Untangle Complex Chip Pulses and Catch Timing Errors
Designing a chip that runs at the wrong speed is a costly mistake. IBM has filed a patent for a smarter way…
Smart Glasses Patent Aims to Shame You Into Working Harder
Meta is patenting a system where your smart glasses automatically take a photo when your smartwatch detects you're falling behind on a…
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