Sony Files Patent for Radar-Based Body Fluid Monitoring
Sony is exploring a way to measure fluids inside your body, like blood, using radar signals bounced through your skin. No needle,…
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Sony Files Patent for an Image Sensor That Converts Light to Data Faster
Every photo your camera takes involves a race to convert raw electrical signals into digital numbers before the next frame arrives. Sony's…
Filing: Two Clocks in Every Photo End Arguments Over When It Was Taken
Every photo you take has a timestamp, but that timestamp is only as trustworthy as your camera's clock. Sony's new patent wants…
Sony Patent Aims to Conceal the Visible Grid in Glasses-Free 3D Displays
Glasses-free 3D screens have always had a hidden flaw: the physical grid that creates the 3D effect is often visible to the…
Sony Patents a Self-Cooling Wire Motor That Chills Itself From the Inside
Tiny wire-based motors that move by changing shape when heated are fast and powerful, but they overheat quickly. Sony's new patent puts…
Sony Patents a Drone Camera You Aim by Tilting Your Hand
Sony wants to let drone pilots aim the camera just by moving their hand or wrist, no joystick fiddling required. A simple…
Intel Patents Circuitry That Spots AI Data-Streaming Before the Cache Gets Swamped
When a processor is running an AI job, it often burns through memory in one long sweep, never touching the same data…
ATI Technologies Patents a Way to Run Motion-Blur Calculations in Reverse
When a GPU renders a fast-moving scene, it tracks how pixels moved forward in time. ATI Technologies is patenting a method to…
Dedicated AI Compression Chips Emerge From New AMD Patent
Video compression is already a heavy lift for chips, and AI-based codecs make it even heavier. AMD is filing a patent for…
AMD Files Patent to Accelerate In-Game Lighting Through Neural Networks
Figuring out whether a light bulb actually illuminates a surface is one of the most expensive calculations in 3D graphics. AMD wants…
AMD Patents a Hardware Shortcut for the Number-Conversion Work AI Chips Do Constantly
AI chips spend a surprising amount of time just converting numbers back and forth between formats. AMD's new patent describes a hardware…
AMD Patent Uses Boolean Matrix Factorization to Shrink AI Models for FPGA Deployment
Running AI directly on a programmable chip is already a tight squeeze. Xilinx has filed a patent for a technique that compresses…
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