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…
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Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Checks Its Own Safety Systems While Running
Most chips only check their safety systems at startup. Qualcomm's new patent describes a chip that keeps running those checks in the…
Qualcomm Patents a Backup Channel That Keeps Chiplets Running After a Link Failure
When one of the internal control channels inside a modern chip package breaks down, the whole data connection typically has to stop…
Qualcomm Patents an AI System That Auto-Tunes Chips Across Manufacturing Differences
No two chips come off a production line behaving exactly the same, and tuning thousands of them by hand is basically impossible.…
New Patent Refines How Camera Sensors Lock Focus on a Subject
Autofocus sounds instant, but getting it right in low light or on fast-moving subjects takes careful engineering inside each individual pixel. Samsung's…
Nvidia Patents a Method to Run Complex Text Searches on Graphics Chips Faster
GPUs are great at crunching numbers in parallel, but certain text-search patterns trip them up in ways that slow everything down. Nvidia's…
Intel Patents Memory That Erases Itself After Being Read Once
Intel is patenting a memory chip that can be told to forget data the moment it's been read. It's a hardware-level take…
Microsoft Patents a Built-In Circuit That Tests Every Individual Light Source in a Display
Testing whether every tiny pixel in a micro-LED display works correctly is a genuine headache for manufacturers. Microsoft's latest patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a System That Recalibrates Your Phone's Altitude Sensor After You Drop It
Drop your phone and the barometric pressure sensor inside it can shift out of calibration feeding bad altitude data to every app…
Qualcomm Patents a Camera System That Exposes Each Object in a Scene Separately
Your phone already takes multiple shots at different brightness levels and blends them together. Qualcomm's new patent takes that further by deciding…
Apple Patent: iPhone Charging That Adjusts Based on How You're Using Your Phone
Apple is working on a wireless battery pack that doesn't just dump power into your iPhone at full speed all the time.…
Samsung Patents Audio Cleanup That Evens Out Sound From Narrow Speaker Grilles Across a Room
Slot speakers, the thin audio grilles crammed into the edges of phones and tablets, have a well-known problem: they sound great in…
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