Microsoft Patents a Two-Stage System for Catching Accidental Touchscreen Taps
Every touchscreen user has accidentally hit a button they didn't mean to. Microsoft's new patent describes a layered system that checks multiple…
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Disney Patents Robot Face Skin That Physically Shifts to Match Projected Emotions
Disney is patenting animatronic figures whose physical skin can push, pull, and deform in sync with images projected onto it, combining old-school…
AMD Patents a Two-Step Data Conversion That Keeps AI Calculations More Precise
Every time an AI chip converts a number from one format to another, tiny rounding errors can sneak in and compound. AMD's…
Sony Files Patent for a Camera Lens That Focuses by Moving Only Its Middle Section
Most camera lenses move a lot of glass just to focus on something close up. Sony's new patent describes a design where…
Intel Patents a Chip Trick That Runs AI Math in Tinier 4-Bit Numbers
Intel is patenting a way to do the heavy multiplication at the heart of AI models using an unusually compact number format,…
Qualcomm Patents a Video Chip That Cuts Its Own Power During Low-Quality Streams
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a video processing chip that monitors the complexity of a video stream in real time and…
Patent Targets the Random Flickering That Disrupts Computer-Generated Visual Simulations
Flickering in rendered scenes is one of those problems that looks minor until you see it, and then you can't unsee it.…
Apple Patents a Way for Earbuds to Detect When You Put Them On
Your AirPods already pause when you yank one out, but Apple is working on a more power-efficient way to figure out whether…
Disney Patents a System That Keeps Projected Images Locked to a Moving Robot's Skin
Imagine a robot character whose face and body display animated visuals that shift and flow perfectly as the robot moves, bends, and…
Xilinx Patents a Chip That Throttles Itself Based on the Math It's Doing
Government export rules cap how fast a chip can compute, but not all math is the same speed. Xilinx wants its chips…
Intel Patent Removes Need for Buffer Hardware in OLED Display Sync
Every OLED screen pulses with tiny light cycles invisible to the naked eye. Intel's new patent describes a way to synchronize incoming…
Nvidia Patents AI That Predicts How a Robot's Body Will Move
Training a robot in simulation only helps if the simulation is accurate. Nvidia is patenting a neural network that learns to predict…
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