Qualcomm Patent Uses Stars and Sky to Calibrate Sensors
Stars have been used for navigation for thousands of years. Qualcomm wants to use them to keep your device's sensors honest.
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Samsung Patents a Smart Home Network That Tracks Your Movements Room to Room
Most smart home sensors only watch what's in front of them. Samsung's new patent describes a system that figures out where you're…
Intel Patents a Compression Method That Makes Video Game Worlds Load Faster
Ray tracing is one of the most memory-hungry parts of modern 3D rendering, and Intel thinks it has found a smarter way…
Sony Patents a Two-Camera 3D Scanning System That Keeps Its Data Aligned
Getting a clean 3D model of an object is harder than it looks. Sony's new patent tackles one of the most tedious…
Samsung Patent: Making Flat, Dull Video Look Richer and More Lifelike on Modern Screens
Most of the video content you watch was made before HDR screens existed, and it shows. Samsung is patenting a way to…
Nvidia Patents Software That Rewrites Its Own Picture-Enhancing Rules for Every Scene
Most image-quality improvements in PC graphics require developers to change their games. Nvidia's new patent describes a way for the driver itself…
Sony Patents a Lighting System That Fills Dark Gaps in Depth-Sensing Cameras
When a camera tries to measure distance using a grid of tiny lasers, the dark gaps between those lasers can cause blind…
Samsung Patents a Robot That Shakes Its Own Wheels Free When It Gets Stuck
Every robot vacuum owner knows the frustration of finding their machine wedged against a rug fringe or door threshold, spinning helplessly. Samsung's…
Intel Patents a Method to Scan Video Frames Faster for Real-Time Surveillance
Processing video in real time is one of the hardest jobs a chip can do. Intel's new patent describes a way to…
Sony Patents a System of Body-Worn Cameras That Track Your Own Skeleton
Sony wants to map the position of every joint and limb on your body using only small cameras clipped to you, with…
Apple Patents a Display Scaling System That Reads Image Edges Before Sharpening Them
Every time a screen blows up a lower-resolution image to fill more pixels, it has to invent detail that wasn't there. Apple's…
Intel Patents a System That Automatically Sharpens 3D Graphics Detail Based on Distance
When your GPU is rendering a scene, drawing a distant mountain at the same detail level as the rock in front of…
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