Sony Patents a Video Decoding Shortcut That Drops One Neighbor Block
Sony has found a way to speed up video compression hardware by deliberately ignoring one neighboring block of pixels, a small rule…
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AMD Patents Chip Design That Keeps AI Calculations Accurate Without Wasting Silicon
AMD is patenting a chip-level trick that lets different clusters of math hardware use their own separate scaling numbers, a change that…
Samsung Patents a Two-Layer Adhesive System for Foldable Phone Screens
The crease in a foldable phone screen is one of the most complained-about details in the category. Samsung's latest patent targets the…
Meta Patent Uses Skin Contact to Enable Data Transfer in Smart Eyewear
Meta is exploring a way to let your eyewear communicate with other devices by using your own body as the wire. No…
Qualcomm Patents Technology That Lets Multiple Tasks Share a Memory Unit's Built-In Processing Power
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a system that lets one physical memory-processing unit pretend to be several independent ones, so different…
Google Files Patent for a Lower-Cost Way to Run Quantum Chemistry Simulations
Quantum computers promise to simulate molecules in ways ordinary computers never could, but the error costs are steep. Google's new patent describes…
OpenAI Patents AI Hardware That Skips Calculations It Knows Will Be Zero
A huge fraction of the math inside an AI chip is pointless: multiply anything by zero and you already know the answer.…
Google Patents a Way to Read Body Gestures Using Both Cameras and Wearables
Google is working on a system that combines what a camera sees with what your smartwatch feels to figure out exactly what…
Samsung Patents Technology to Stop Storage Drives From Overheating During Heavy Data Saves
Every time your SSD rewrites old data to make room for new data, it burns extra power you never asked for. Samsung…
Sony Patents a Way to Control Sound Directly From a Motion-Sensing Camera
Sony has filed a patent for a system that uses a special kind of motion-sensing camera to generate or control sound in…
Google Patents a Method for Measuring Quantum Computer Accuracy Gate by Gate
Before a quantum computer can do anything useful, you need to know how badly it's getting things wrong. Google's new patent tackles…
Samsung Patents a Way to Keep Multiple Screens Perfectly in Sync on One Chip
Every time a device drives two or more screens at once, there's a hidden timing problem: keeping all those image streams perfectly…
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