Sony Patents a Snap-Together Modular System for Releasing Scents on Demand
Sony is patenting a building-block approach to scent delivery — individual aroma cartridges that each hold a different smell, form a directed…
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Sony Patents a Video Encoding Trick That Skips Redundant Color Transform Data
Sony is patenting a subtle but meaningful tweak to video encoding: skip writing transform type metadata entirely when any color channel is…
Sony Patents a System That Auto-Tunes Camera Settings During 3D Scanning
Getting a clean 3D scan of a real-world object is surprisingly hard — bad exposure, wrong angle, or tricky lighting can ruin…
Sony Patents a Spatial Audio System That Moves Your Caller Closer as Your Relationship Deepens
Sony is patenting a way to make remote calls feel more like real conversations — by placing each caller's voice at a…
Intel Patents a Real-Time System for Scoring How Good Encoded Video Actually Looks
Encoding video fast is one thing — knowing whether the result actually looks good to a human eye, in real time, is…
Intel Patents a Reconfigurable Chip Array for Running Neural Network Layers
Running a convolutional neural network efficiently is hard partly because each layer wants a different compute shape. Intel's patent describes a processor…
AMD Patents a Two-Word Wake System That Won't Trigger Unless You're Actually Looking
Your smart speaker fires off when the TV says something that sounds like 'Hey [assistant]' — and AMD thinks it has a…
Disney Patents a Motorized 3D Projection Surface That Pops Out on Cue
Disney is patenting a projection surface that physically unfurls on command — and then displays 3D visuals synced to a show, or…
Apple Patents a Four-Edge Curved Display With Per-Pixel Side Mirrors
Apple is patenting a display that curves on all four sides — not just the left and right — and solves a…
Apple Patents an App That Schedules EV Charging Around Energy Costs
Apple is filing patents in EV charging optimization — an area that puts it squarely in the middle of smart home energy…
Apple Patents an Energy Guidance System for Climate Control Accessories
Apple is patenting a way for a user device — think iPhone or HomePod — to act as a middleman between your…
Apple Patents a Workload-Aware CPU Routing System for Its Chips
Apple's chips already separate efficiency cores from performance cores — but this patent adds a finer layer on top, splitting clusters of…
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