Qualcomm Patents a System That Lets Cars and Drones Negotiate Flight Paths
As drones and self-driving cars start sharing the same airspace and roads, someone has to referee. Qualcomm's new patent describes a way…
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AMD Patents a GPU That Draws Less Detail When You're Already Moving the Camera
AMD has filed a patent for a rendering system that deliberately lowers image quality during the exact moments you're least likely to…
AMD Patents an AI-Driven Method for Compressing Game Textures
Game textures eat a surprising amount of GPU memory, and the compression methods the industry relies on are decades old. AMD is…
Samsung Patents a Method to Track and Predict Movement in Video Frame by Frame
When a video is compressed and then played back, the decoder has to guess where moving objects went between frames. Samsung's new…
Sony Patents a System That Guides Photographers Away From Mirror-Like Glare
Shiny surfaces have long been the enemy of 3D cameras, bouncing light in ways that confuse depth sensors. Sony's new patent describes…
Qualcomm Patents a Camera That Sharpens Its Focus Toward Any Sound It Hears
A Qualcomm patent describes a camera system that listens for sounds, guesses where your eyes are about to go, and sharpens that…
Samsung Patents a Faster Way to Connect New Home Appliances to Wi-Fi
Getting a new smart fridge or washing machine onto your home Wi-Fi is often more painful than it should be. Samsung has…
Apple Patents Headphones That Mix a Wired Audio Cable With Wireless Head Tracking
Apple is working on a way for wired headphones to also use a wireless connection, but only for one specific job: tracking…
Sony Patents a System That Catches Faulty Stations That Feed Accuracy Data to Your GPS
High-precision GPS relies on a network of fixed ground stations sending out correction signals, but if one of those stations goes wrong,…
Sony Patents a Dual-Camera System That Measures How Light Filters Through Surfaces
Most cameras treat light as a simple brightness signal. Sony is filing patents around capturing something much more specific: how the orientation…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Metal Light Filter for More Precise Image Sensors
Samsung has patented a light filter built from two different metals, each tuned to capture a different slice of the color spectrum.…
Samsung Patents a Projector That Grows Its Image as the Lens Cover Opens
Most projectors just blast a full image the moment they turn on, cover or not. Samsung's new patent describes a device that…
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