Samsung Patents a Way to Send Wireless Audio Over Two Separate Bluetooth Streams at Once
Wireless audio cutting out mid-song is one of those small annoyances that no one has fully solved. Samsung's latest patent filing takes…
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Apple Patents a Two-Sender System That Confirms Wireless Audio Delivery
Apple has filed a patent for a wireless audio system that uses two separate radio chips working in tandem to shuttle sound…
Sony Patents a Camera That Locks Focus by Measuring Distance and Reading the Scene
Most cameras rely on a single method to lock focus, and that method can fall apart in dim rooms, bright sun, or…
Apple Patents a Display System That Adjusts Colors for Color-Blind Users
About 300 million people worldwide have some form of color vision deficiency, and Apple is patenting a pixel-level approach to making screens…
Samsung Patent Filing Targets Projector Distortion on Uneven or Irregular Surfaces
Most projectors demand a flat, white wall to look good. Samsung's new patent describes a projector that scans its own target surface…
Sony Files Patent for a Compact Signal-Tracking System That Pinpoints Where a Transmission Comes From
Sony is patenting a way to figure out which direction a radio signal is coming from using a chain of antennas wired…
Intel Patents a Way to Decode Only the Parts of a Video Frame You Need
Intel has patented a way to make video decoders skip the parts of a frame nobody is looking at, potentially reducing the…
Samsung Patents a Way to Decrypt Data Inside the Memory Chip Itself
Every time your phone reads protected data from memory, that data has to travel across a bus and get decrypted before it…
Microsoft Patents a System That Runs Robot Missions in Simulation Before the Real Thing
Before a robot does something dangerous or complicated, what if you could watch a digital twin of it run the whole mission…
Samsung Patents a Display That Automatically Reads Your Health Stats When Ready
Samsung is patenting a display that tracks whether you're in the right state to have your health data read, then takes the…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Skip Blank Pixels to Speed Up AI Image Processing
Most AI image models waste time doing math on pixels that barely matter. Nvidia's new patent describes a way to filter those…
Intel Patents a GPU Scheduling Trick That Stops Threads From Stepping on Each Other
When two threads inside a GPU try to read from the same memory slot at the same moment, one has to wait.…
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