Sony Patents a System for Adding Realistic Rolling Shutter Distortion to CG Images
When a camera sensor reads out pixels line by line instead of all at once, fast-moving objects appear skewed or wobbly —…
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Intel Patents Parallel Huffman Decoding to Compress LLM Weights on GPU
Running a large language model on a GPU requires moving enormous amounts of weight data around — and that bandwidth cost is…
Intel Patents a Way to Send Pre-Compiled Commands Directly to GPU Hardware
Every time your GPU runs a task, the graphics driver spends time translating instructions into hardware commands. Intel's patent describes a way…
AMD Patents a Runtime GPU Shader Scheduler That Learns From Past Frames
AMD is filing a patent for a GPU scheduling system that watches how your games actually run — across multiple frames —…
Apple Patents an Optical Sensing System That Tracks Stylus Tilt, Hover, and Rotation via Light
Apple is exploring a way to track a stylus using light rather than traditional capacitive touch — and the system can detect…
Nvidia Patents a GPU Method for Splitting Tensor Operations into Parallel Paths
Tensor operations are the heartbeat of modern AI — but certain flavors, like the ones used in physics-aware neural networks, are notoriously…
Samsung Patents an Adaptive Rectifier Circuit for More Efficient Wireless Charging
Wireless charging loses a surprising amount of energy as heat during the AC-to-DC conversion step. Samsung's latest patent targets that exact inefficiency…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Gate Transistor Design for More Precise OLED Pixel Control
Samsung Display is rethinking how individual OLED pixels get told how bright to be — and their answer is to give the…
Samsung Patents a Secure-Write Architecture That Works During Low Power Mode
Most chips stop doing meaningful work when they enter low power mode — but Samsung's new patent describes a way to keep…
Samsung Files Patent for a Display That Senses Light Without Extra Sensors
Samsung Display is patenting a screen that doubles as a light sensor — embedding light-receiving elements directly into the panel and using…
Samsung Patents a Per-Zone Refresh Rate Clock System for OLED Displays
Most variable refresh rate systems treat the whole screen the same — Samsung's new patent lets different parts of your display refresh…
Samsung Patents a Self-Grounding PCB Mount for Display Devices
Samsung has filed a patent for a display device where the circuit board grounds itself to the chassis the moment it's physically…
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