Apple Patents a Way to Show What Your Wearable Device Is Covering Up
When you strap a device to your wrist or hand, it hides the very thing it might need to show you. Apple's…
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Apple Patents a Display System That Grabs the Sharpest Frame Piece Available
When your phone's display processor is racing to keep up, Apple wants a backup plan: a second image buffer standing by to…
Apple Patents a Slice-by-Slice Image Processing Method That Cuts Chip Memory Use
Apple is patenting a way to process images in narrow horizontal strips rather than loading an entire frame into chip memory at…
Google Patents a Two-Model System That Teaches Robots to Reuse Past Experience
Training an AI agent from scratch for every new task is slow and expensive. Google's latest patent describes a way to let…
Samsung Patents a Magnetic Shield That Keeps Quantum Processor Signals on Track
Quantum computers are extraordinarily sensitive to stray magnetic interference, and Samsung just filed a patent for a shielding system designed to keep…
Apple Patents a Tool That Adjusts Screens to Match Hospital Display Requirements
A radiologist's diagnosis can only be as good as what they see on their screen. Apple has filed a patent for software…
Samsung Patents a Phone Frame With a Hidden Slot That Acts as an Antenna
Samsung has filed a patent describing a way to build an antenna directly into the structural frame of a phone, tucked out…
Apple Patents Headsets That Switch Audio Sources Without You Lifting a Finger
Apple has filed a patent for headsets that can drop one audio source and jump to another, automatically, the moment a second…
Apple Patents a Tiny Light Projector That Maps Surfaces With Precise Dot Patterns
Apple has filed a patent for a new kind of light projector that uses ultra-thin optical surfaces, engineered at the nanometer scale,…
Apple Patents a Prism-Tilting Camera System for Thinner Optical Zoom
Apple's latest patent describes a compact camera that bends light around a corner using a prism, then tilts that prism to keep…
IBM Patents a Way to Stack Multiple Data Records Into One Memory Slot
IBM has filed a patent for a memory technique that folds many separate data records into a single compressed structure, then pulls…
Samsung Patents a Foldable Phone Antenna That Stays Active When the Phone Is Shut
Folding phones face a stubborn physics problem: fold the device shut and the two metal housings can block or fight each other's…
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