Microsoft Patents a Display Film That Absorbs Specific Colors on Demand
Your screen looks washed out in sunlight and bleeds light in a dark room. Microsoft is patenting a film that can selectively…
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Apple Patent: Mic Listens to Room Noise to Keep Dialogue Audible
Ever cranked up the volume on a podcast because a truck drove by, only to get blasted when things went quiet again?…
Sony Files Patent for a Zoom Lens That Stays Sharp From Wide to Telephoto
Sony is patenting a zoom lens structure that carefully choreographs how internal glass elements move during zooming, with one specific goal: keeping…
Samsung Patents a Display That Corrects Its Own Brightness the Instant It Turns On
Every time you turn on a screen, there's a brief window where the display's brightness compensation is flying blind. Samsung's new patent…
Sony Patent Introduces Deliberate Air Gap to Reshape Surface-Emitting Laser Design
Sony is patenting a structural tweak inside vertical laser chips, a deliberate sliver of air, that could improve how tightly and efficiently…
Qualcomm Patent Targets Cache-Efficient Memory Allocation for VR Reprojection Pipelines
When a VR headset can't render fast enough, it cheats by stretching and repositioning old frames. Qualcomm's new patent is about making…
New Patent Reveals Earbud Case That Tracks Users in 3D Space
Samsung is patenting an earbud case that doesn't just sit on your desk. It tracks where you are in the room and…
Nvidia Patents Technology That Keeps AI Calculations Accurate Without Slowing Down Chips
Every AI model lives or dies by matrix multiplication. Nvidia's new patent describes a system that automatically decides, in real time, whether…
Heartbeat Data Patent Could Warn You About Hidden Heart and Diabetes Risk
Apple is working on a way to use the heart rate sensor already in its wearables to warn you about metabolic syndrome,…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Activates Only When Lighting Conditions Change
Most camera sensors capture every frame at a fixed rate, whether anything interesting is happening or not. Sony's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents Technology That Smooths Blurry Edges Between Video Frames
When a video codec mixes two different compression strategies in neighboring image blocks, ugly artifacts can appear along the border. Samsung's new…
IBM Files Patent for AI Math Acceleration Through Analog Electrical Pulse Signals
Most AI chips do math the digital way, flipping billions of ones and zeroes millions of times per second. IBM's new patent…
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