Samsung Patents a Way to Wake Your Smart Ring Only When You Need to Gesture
Samsung's latest patent describes smart glasses that watch where your hand is going, then wake up your smart ring just in time…
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Patent: Two Types of Camera Pixels Work Together for Faster, Richer Video
Sony is designing a camera sensor where some pixels act as a rapid-response early-warning system, telling the rest of the sensor how…
Samsung Patents a Self-Correcting Brightness System for Modular LED Displays
Anyone who has stood in front of a large LED video wall and noticed faint stripes or uneven brightness patches knows the…
Nvidia Patents a Dedicated Chip for Correcting Distorted Camera Footage in Real Time
Every time a wide-angle camera corrects its fisheye distortion or a self-driving car straightens a skewed road view, software has to crunch…
Sony Files Patent to Accurately Reproduce Camera Colors Across Any Display
Colors look different on your camera screen than they do in real life, and different again on your TV or monitor. Sony…
New Apple Patent Shrinks AI Data on Chip Using Lookup Tables
Apple is patenting a way to make the weight data that powers AI models dramatically smaller inside its own chips, the kind…
Sony Patents an Image Sensor Fix That Cuts Noise in Dark Photos
Dark photos that look grainy even when you barely moved the camera often trace back to a problem inside the sensor itself.…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor That Captures Bright and Dark Areas at the Same Time
Shooting a photo into a bright window and losing all the shadow detail is one of the oldest frustrations in photography. Samsung's…
Nvidia Patents an AI Decision-Making System That Ignores Environmental Noise
AI models are notoriously sensitive to conditions they weren't trained on, producing wildly different answers from nearly identical inputs. Nvidia's latest patent…
Sony Patents a Strap That Keeps Body-Worn Sensors Firmly in Place
Sony is patenting a simple but specific wearable strap design, one built to hold a pressure-sensing device firmly against your skin. It's…
Sony Patent Merges Mismatched 3D Sensors Into One Precise Unified Frame
Different sensors see the world at different speeds, and that mismatch creates blurry or misaligned data. Sony's latest filing describes a way…
Qualcomm Patents a Graphics Chip That Checks Its Own Active Sections Before Dividing Work
Qualcomm's latest patent describes a GPU that looks up a simple on/off list of its own active sections before handing out graphics…
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