Google Patents a Display That Hides Antennas Inside the Screen Border
Google has filed a patent describing a display that uses the thin, non-pixel gap between two screen zones to hide antennas, then…
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Intel Patents a Chip That Decides How Much AI Thinking to Skip
Intel has filed a patent for hardware that, before running an AI calculation, quickly estimates whether taking a shortcut would actually be…
Samsung Patents a Spring-Loaded Gear Hinge for Its Foldable Phones
Samsung has filed a patent for a hinge mechanism that uses interlocking gears and a compressed spring to keep a foldable phone's…
Qualcomm Patents Chip Technology That Stops Unauthorized Programs From Reading Sensitive Data
Every time a chip touches a block of memory, something has to decide whether that access is allowed. Qualcomm's new patent describes…
Meta Patents a Dedicated Security Chip for Biometric Data in Wearables
Meta is designing smart glasses and wristbands that store your biometric data on a completely separate, locked-down chip that the rest of…
Qualcomm Patents a Boot System That Picks Its Own Power Lines
Every time your phone starts up, its chip draws power from a fixed set of lines, whether it needs all of them…
Xilinx Files Patent for On-Chip Data Format Conversion That Feeds AI Models Faster
Xilinx has patented a way to convert numeric data formats directly inside a chip's processor, skipping the software step that usually happens…
Samsung Patents a Chip-Level Random Number Generator That Builds Entropy in Steps
Every secure transaction, encrypted message, and password relies on truly random numbers, and generating them inside a constrained chip is harder than…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Devices to Figure Out Their Location by Sharing Camera Clues
GPS is useless indoors, and most cameras don't know where they're pointing. Qualcomm's new patent describes a way for a device to…
Sony Patents Technology That Helps Cameras Recognize Glass and Transparent Surfaces
Depth sensors are everywhere now, from robot vacuum cameras to car parking systems, but they have a well-known blind spot: glass. Sony's…
Samsung Patent: Shrinking Video Color Data by Splitting Footage Into Segments
Samsung has filed a patent for a display technique that chops a video into pieces, compresses the color information in each piece,…
Samsung Patents a Battery System That Decides When a Cell Is Truly Dead
Declaring a battery cell permanently dead is a one-way door. Samsung's new patent describes a system that checks two conditions before slamming…
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