Samsung Patents a Smart Ring That Reads a Finger Pressed Into Its Groove
Samsung is rethinking what a smart ring can sense, filing a patent for a ring with physical grooves on its outer surface…
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Intel Patents Technology to Run Visual Effects Code Across Any Graphics Platform
Writing code for one graphics system and having it refuse to run on another is one of the oldest headaches in software…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Hides Wiring Inside Smart Glasses Arms
Apple has filed a patent for a hinge mechanism that does two jobs at once: it lets a wearable display's arms fold…
IBM Patents Technology to Track Exactly How Much Power Each Program Uses on a Shared Graphics Chip
When dozens of jobs run on the same GPU at once, figuring out how much power each one actually consumed is surprisingly…
Sony Patents a Prediction System for Compressing 3D Video Data
Streaming a three-dimensional scene, like a sports replay you can walk around in or a lidar map from a self-driving car, takes…
Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Speeds Up Small Shapes in 3D Graphics
Every 3D scene is built from millions of triangles, and tiny ones have always caused outsized headaches for GPUs. Qualcomm's new patent…
Intel Patents Hardware That Runs AI Calculations Using Less Memory and Power
Intel is patenting the internal plumbing of an AI processor that handles a compact number format called FP8, which lets chips do…
Sony Patents Wheels Within Wheels That Let Robots Roll in Any Direction
Most wheels can only go forward or backward. Sony is patenting a wheel built from smaller wheels nested inside each other, so…
Qualcomm Patents a Dual-Buffer Approach to Compressing 3D Point Cloud Data
Qualcomm is filing patents on a more efficient way to compress 3D point clouds, the dense data format used in LiDAR scanning,…
Smart Glasses Hinge Patent Seals Out Water and Dust
Folding the arms on a pair of smart glasses is a surprisingly tricky engineering problem when water is involved. Meta's latest patent…
Sony Patents an Image Sensor That Knows When to Stop Collecting Light
Most camera sensors collect light for a fixed window of time and hope for the best. Sony's new patent describes a sensor…
New Wristband Patent Cuts Noise in Muscle Signal Detection
Meta is building wristbands that can read the electrical signals your muscles produce, and this patent reveals a specific trick for making…
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