Apple Patents a Sound-Triggered Drop-In Audio System for Connected Devices
Apple is filing patents for a system that listens for specific sounds — a smoke alarm, a baby crying, a door slam…
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Apple Patents a Dual-Laser System for Reading Apple Watch Crown Inputs
Apple's Digital Crown is already one of the most sophisticated dials on any consumer device — but a new patent suggests the…
Apple Patents a Stylus That Knows Whether It's Docked or in Use
Apple is patenting a stylus that behaves differently depending on whether it's sitting in its dock or in your hand — and…
Apple Patents an Optical Touch Sensor That Ignores Water Droplets
Water on a touchscreen has always been the enemy — it fools capacitive sensors into thinking ghost fingers are tapping everywhere. Apple's…
Apple Patents a Dynamic Color System That Adapts What You See to Where You Are
Apple is patenting a display pipeline that doesn't just show you what a video looks like — it tries to show you…
Google Patents Temperature-Corrected Skin Autofluorescence for Wearables
Your skin naturally glows when hit with the right wavelength of light — and that glow can reveal a surprising amount about…
Google Patents a Speaker Surround That Catches Itself Under High Excursion
Push a speaker too hard and its flexible surround can tear, fold, or fail — often permanently. Google's new patent describes a…
Nvidia Patents a Morton-Code Voxel Sorting Method for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering
Nvidia is patenting a technique that uses a clever spatial sorting trick — Morton codes — to bring radiance field rendering closer…
Nvidia Patents Adaptive Voxel Radiance Field Rendering for Real-Time 3D Scenes
Nvidia is patenting a way to build and render 3D scenes using optimized voxel grids — small 3D cubes that get iteratively…
Nvidia Patents Hardware Ray Tracing for Curved 3D Geometry
Rendering realistic hair, fur, or cables in real time has always forced GPUs to cheat. Nvidia's new patent moves curve geometry —…
Nvidia Patents an API That Stores Compressed Video With Its Own Decompression Instructions
Nvidia is patenting a way for a GPU to store compressed video data together with a built-in recipe for how to decompress…
Tesla Patents a Parallel 2D Matrix Processor for Accelerated AI Image Math
Tesla is patenting the math engine at the heart of neural network image processing — a two-dimensional matrix processor designed to run…
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