Sony Patent Stacks Photon Counting Stages to Sharpen Low-Light Images
Sony is patenting a way to add up light readings from multiple rows of image sensor pixels before the data ever leaves…
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Wearable Tech Patent Detects How Skin Shifts Against a Sensor
Your skin is a surprisingly good electrical signal. Microsoft wants to use that fact to let a wearable device know the moment…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Lets Wearable Displays Pivot in Two Directions
Apple has filed a patent for a hinge that lets a wearable device's arm flex in two different directions at once, which…
Sony Files Patent for Display Screens With Built-In Temperature Sensors Per Block
Instead of treating a screen as one big panel with one temperature reading, Sony wants to monitor the heat in each individual…
Qualcomm Patents a Processor That Runs Two AI Calculations Simultaneously in One Step
AI models do a lot of math, and right now that math often requires separate trips to different parts of a chip.…
Meta Patent Embeds Muscle-Reading Sensors Directly Into Wristband Material
Meta is working on a wristband that reads the electrical signals your muscles send when you move your fingers, and this patent…
Samsung Patents a Washing Machine That Adjusts Its Own Spin-Cycle Safety Limits
Most washing machines shake violently with an uneven load and either power through or stop entirely. Samsung's new patent describes a machine…
Microsoft Patent Splits One Trackpad Into Two Separate Hand-Controlled Zones
Your laptop's trackpad is one big slab that does one thing at a time. Microsoft wants to change that by splitting it…
Intel Patents a Cache-Sync System for Multi-GPU Chip Designs
When you split a GPU across multiple chips, keeping each chip's local memory in sync is a surprisingly hard problem. Intel's new…
Meta Patent Targets Cleaner Muscle Signal Readings in Wristband Technology
Meta is building the hardware foundation for a wristband that reads your nerve and muscle signals well enough to control computers with…
Intel Patents Chip Design That Speeds Up Complex Math on Graphics Hardware
Intel wants GPUs to handle some of the trickiest math operations faster by cleverly reusing hardware that's already sitting inside the chip,…
Sony Patents Real-Time Collision Avoidance for Robots With Jointed Moving Arms
Every time a robot arm moves, it needs to know not just where to go, but how to get there without hitting…
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