Samsung Patents Technology That Tells You Exactly Which Video Cable You Plugged In
You plug in an HDMI cable and have no idea if it's the cheap old one or the new high-bandwidth version. Samsung…
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Disney Patents Hidden Tracking Dots That Keep Projected Images Locked to Moving Robot Characters
Imagine a theme park robot whose face changes expression not through mechanical parts, but through light projected perfectly onto its skin, even…
Intel Patent: AI Tasks Automatically Route to the Fastest Available Processor
Not every core on a modern CPU is built the same, and Intel wants the chip itself to figure out which tasks…
Sony Patents a Camera Component That Measures Distances With Greater Precision
Sony is working on a way to squeeze an ultra-sensitive light detector and its supporting electronics onto a single chip without them…
Samsung Files Patent for Triple-Layer Coating Designed to Eliminate Screen Glare
Screen glare is one of those annoyances that never fully goes away, even on expensive displays. Samsung's latest patent describes a precisely…
Drone Patent Reuses Blurry Misaligned Frames to Fix 3D Distance Measurement
When a drone's stereo cameras drift out of alignment mid-flight, the fix usually happens later on the ground using different footage, which…
Microsoft Patent Targets Dynamic Screen Dimming Precisely Where Your Eyes Look
Most screens dim everything or nothing. Microsoft is patenting a display that tracks exactly where your eye is pointing and dims only…
AMD Patents Method to Run AI Calculations Faster Across Graphics Chip Units
Running AI models requires enormous amounts of repetitive math, and AMD's latest patent describes a way to stop GPU cores from waiting…
Disney Patents a System That Keeps Projected Images Locked to Moving Robots
Imagine a robot character at a theme park whose face and costume are actually painted by light, in real time, updating perfectly…
Intel Patents a Chip That Prepares AI Data for Calculations Without Slowing the Processor
Intel has filed a patent for a dedicated hardware engine that handles the messy work of unpacking and converting compressed AI data…
A Robot Hand Patent Finally Gets the Thumb Right
Getting a robot to grip things the way a human hand does is harder than it sounds, and the thumb is almost…
Qualcomm Patents a Hardware Instruction That Normalizes AI Data in One Step
When an AI model processes numbers, it constantly has to bring wildly different values into the same range before doing any math.…
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