Disney Patent Reveals a Smart Camera Trigger That Waits for the Perfect Shot
Disney has patented a camera setup where one small 'watcher' camera monitors a scene and automatically fires a bigger, better camera only…
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Xilinx Patents a Processor That Loans Its CPU Cores to an Accelerator on Demand
Most chips draw a hard line between the CPU and the accelerator. Xilinx's new patent erases that line, letting the processor hand…
Samsung Patents a Filter That Cleans Blurry, Blocky Video in Two Stages
Every time you stream a video, your device patches up the visual damage caused by compression. Samsung's new patent describes a two-pass…
Chip Designer AMD Patents an AI Processor That Runs Two Types of Math at Once
Most AI chips do one heavy calculation at a time and then move on. Xilinx's new patent describes a chip design where…
Intel Patents Technology That Resizes Screen Content Based on Your Distance
Intel has patented a display system that watches how far you are from your screen and automatically makes text and other on-screen…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Shrink AI Image Filters by Cutting Redundant Math
AI image processing relies on hundreds of tiny math filters, and many of them are near-identical copies of each other. Qualcomm's new…
Meta Patent Targets Heart Rate Monitor Accuracy in Low-Light Environments
Heart rate sensors in wearables often struggle in low light, picking up more noise than signal. Meta is patenting a way to…
Samsung Patents Phone Design Where Cooling System Doubles as Speaker Channel
Samsung is exploring a way to make the metal component that cools your phone's processor do double duty as part of the…
Samsung Patent Syncs Haptic Feedback Across Multiple Devices During Video Playback
Imagine watching a sports clip on your phone and feeling each player's movement through a different device in the room. That's the…
Samsung Patents an Antenna Hidden Inside a Phone's Metal Frame
Samsung is patenting a way to turn part of a phone's metal side frame into an antenna, tucking the signal-carrying hardware into…
Samsung Patents a Dust-Blocking Hinge System for Foldable Phones
One of the most persistent complaints about foldable phones is that grit and dust work their way into the hinge over time.…
Qualcomm Patents a Camera Self-Calibration Method Using Cylindrical Image Wrapping
When a camera on a car or phone is even slightly tilted, every reading it feeds to a navigation or detection system…
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