Meta Patents a Method for Sealing Flexible Circuits Through Smart Glasses Hinges
Every time you fold your smart glasses, the wiring inside bends with them. Meta's latest patent tackles exactly what happens to that…
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Nvidia Patents a Parallel Method for Collapsing Redundant Curve Segments in Graphics
Drawing smooth curves on a computer sounds simple, but underneath every logo or font glyph are dozens of tiny math-defined segments that…
Nvidia Patents a Fan Noise-Canceling Shell for Its Graphics Cards
Nvidia is patenting a GPU casing that listens to its own fan noise and plays back the opposite sound wave to cancel…
Nvidia Patents a System for Organizing Game Objects to Speed Up Graphics
Every 3D scene you see in a game or simulation is built from millions of tiny triangles. Nvidia's latest patent is about…
Nvidia Patents Technology to Stop Circuit Components From Crowding Each Other on Silicon
Nvidia is borrowing a technique normally used to render video game graphics and turning it into a tool for designing chips. The…
Tesla Patents a Heated, Anti-Glare Glass Stack for Its Vehicle Cameras
Tesla is working on a purpose-built glass assembly for the cameras mounted in its vehicles, one that can conduct electricity for defogging…
Samsung Patents a Robot Vacuum That Picks Up Objects in Its Path
Most robot vacuums give up when they hit a sock on the floor. Samsung is patenting one that picks the sock up,…
Samsung Patents a Display Technique That Blends Two Pixel Signals for Cleaner Images
Getting smooth, accurate color on a screen is harder than it looks. Samsung is patenting a method that processes each pixel's color…
Samsung Patents a Camera Trick That Sharpens Only the Part of the Photo That Matters
Instead of wasting processing power sharpening an entire photo, Samsung's new patent describes a camera that takes a quick low-resolution look at…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Stops Erratic Signals From Corrupting Photo Data
Every time a camera sensor reads a pixel, a tiny circuit races to compare a sliding reference voltage against the light signal…
Samsung Display Patents a Coating That Directs Light Straight Toward the Viewer
Samsung Display has patented a precisely shaped optical film covered in tiny angled structures designed to control the direction light travels as…
Samsung Patents Stacked Memory Chips That Each Tune Their Own Signal Strength
When you stack several memory chips on top of each other, the ones at the bottom and the ones at the top…
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