Apple Patents a System to Sort Nearby Device Signals Before Your Phone Responds
Every time your iPhone is near an AirTag, a set of AirPods, or a competitor's Bluetooth tracker, it silently picks up tiny…
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Samsung Patents a Switchable Satellite Antenna Built Into a Phone's Metal Frame
Samsung is figuring out how to hide a satellite antenna inside the metal rim of a phone, using a small switch to…
Samsung Patents a Step That Sharpens Video Quality Based on How Footage Was Compressed
Every time a compressed video plays on your screen, a decoder has to reverse-engineer millions of tiny math decisions. Samsung has filed…
Intel Patents Encryption That Blocks Unauthorized Programs From Reading Your Memory
Intel is patenting a technique that smuggles access-control information inside encrypted memory blocks, so a chip can verify who wrote a piece…
Sony Patent Filing Targets Noise Reduction in Stacked Three-Chip Camera Sensors
Most camera sensors are one flat chip doing everything at once. Sony's new patent describes splitting that job across three separate chips…
Samsung Patent Controls Mirror Display Brightness According to Content Region Size
Samsung is patenting a mirror display that watches how much of its screen is actually showing content, then adjusts brightness accordingly. It's…
Samsung Patents a Sensor Design That Captures Light From Wider Angles
Most light sensors only see what's directly in front of them. Samsung Display is patenting a way to physically tilt the angle…
Sony Patent Merges Transistor Gates to Boost Image Sensor Performance
Sony is rethinking how the tiny electronic switches inside a camera sensor are built, merging two separate gate controls into one continuous…
Sony Patents a Chip That Captures Sharp Photos and Distance Data Simultaneously
Most phone cameras need separate hardware to figure out how far away things are. Sony's latest patent describes a single stacked sensor…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Pre-Pack 3D Scene Geometry for Faster Rendering
Every time a GPU renders a 3D scene, it has to figure out how to cram thousands of triangles into memory as…
Nvidia Patents a System That Speeds Up 3D Graphics by Recycling Stored Shape Data
Nvidia is patenting a way for its GPUs to skip redundant geometry calculations by storing ready-made 3D building blocks and snapping new…
Nvidia Patents a Way for GPU Thread Groups to Share Memory Directly
Nvidia has filed a patent for a low-level API that lets separate groups of GPU workers read each other's memory without going…
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