Nvidia Patents Reusable Shortcuts That Speed Up How 3D Scenes Are Lit
Building a 3D scene in real time is expensive work, and a big chunk of that cost comes from organizing geometry before…
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Nvidia Patents Technology to Pre-Sort Virtual Objects for Faster Game Visuals
Every 3D scene is made of millions of tiny triangles, and the order in which your GPU processes them matters enormously. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Pre-Build the Maps Its GPUs Use to Trace Light
Ray tracing looks incredible, but it forces your GPU to constantly rebuild complex data structures from scratch. Nvidia's new patent describes a…
Google Patent Chooses the Safer Command When Radar Misreads Your Gesture
When a radar sensor can't quite tell what gesture you just made, Google's new patent says the device should guess wrong in…
Apple Patents a Noise-Reducing Touch Screen Layout for Crisper Input Detection
Touch screens are constantly fighting electrical interference from their own components. Apple's latest patent describes a reworked electrode layout that physically cancels…
Samsung Patents Technology That Trims Phone Battery Drain by Slowing Unused Screen Sections
Your phone's screen doesn't redraw everything at the same speed all the time, and Samsung wants to get much more surgical about…
Nvidia's New Patent Walls Off the Safety System on a Chip So a Crash Can't Touch It
Nvidia is patenting a way to carve a single chip into walled-off sections with different safety rules, so a software crash in…
Samsung's New Patent Solves the Antenna Problem Inside a Phone That Folds Twice
Fold a phone in thirds and you've got a new problem nobody talks about: where do you put the antenna when the…
Google's New Patent Splits the Camera Frame So Every Corner Stays Sharp
Your phone's camera treats the entire frame as one focus problem. Google's new patent wants to split that frame into many smaller…
Intel Patents a Way to Move Data Between Chips on Beams of Light
Intel is patenting a way to send data between chips using beams of light instead of electrical signals, and the trick is…
Sony's New Patent Stops AI Cameras from Analyzing Parts of a Photo That Don't Matter
Instead of running AI analysis on an entire image, Sony's latest patent describes a system that zooms in on just the relevant…
Sony Patents a Camera That Keeps Fast-Moving Objects Locked in Frame
Keeping a sharp, perfectly framed shot of a sprinter or a flying drone is genuinely hard for conventional cameras. Sony is patenting…
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