Google Patents a Way to Keep Both Earbuds in Sync on a Single Audio Stream
Google's latest patent describes a counterintuitive fix for wireless earbuds: deliberately lying to your phone about whether audio arrived, so both earbuds…
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Sony Patents a Two-Material Light Guide Design for Image Sensors
Sony is rethinking how light gets routed inside a camera sensor, and the answer involves mixing two different materials at a microscopic…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Sharpens Detail in Dim or Fast-Moving Shots
Sony has patented a way to make image sensors work more efficiently by letting the chip dial its own precision up or…
Sony Patent: Tracking Moving Objects Using Camera Pixels That Fire on Change
Most cameras waste enormous effort recording a scene that barely changed. Sony is working on a smarter way to read cameras that…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Keeps Extra Color Pixels From Breaking Your Photos
Camera sensors are experimenting with pixels beyond red, green, and blue, but those extra colors can confuse the software that turns raw…
Google Patents an AI System That Adjusts Chip Power Based on What You're Doing
Every chip inside your phone is constantly doing more work than it needs to, because it can't tell the difference between a…
Samsung Patents a Phone That Adjusts Nearby Speakers Based on How Far Away You Are
Samsung is working on a phone that doesn't just connect to a wireless speaker, it measures how far away that speaker is…
Sony Patents a System That Tells Workers Where to Move Obstacles Blocking Robots
When a cart or box blocks a warehouse robot's path, someone has to decide where to put it. Sony's new patent wants…
Nvidia Patents a More Accurate Way to Light Hair and Fur in 3D Scenes
Getting hair, fur, and fabric to look real in a 3D scene is one of the oldest headaches in computer graphics. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents Software That Chooses How to Sharpen Your Blurry Images Faster
Choosing the right algorithm to reconstruct an image is usually a job for a human expert. Nvidia is filing patents on a…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Plan Robot Paths on a GPU in Parallel
Planning a route for a self-driving car or robot arm sounds simple until you realize the machine has to weigh thousands of…
Samsung Patents a Two-Model AI System for Producing Realistic 3D Lighting in Images
Getting 3D graphics to look truly realistic comes down to one brutally hard problem: simulating how light scatters off every surface in…
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