Samsung Patents a Display That Shifts Between Mirror and Screen on Demand
Imagine a bathroom mirror that turns into a TV, then goes back to looking like a plain mirror when you walk away.…
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Samsung Patents a Wearable That Turns Its Own Body Into a Radio Signal Transmitter
Samsung is exploring a way to skip the dedicated antenna component inside a wearable device entirely, turning the circuit board itself into…
Nvidia Patents an Adaptive Memory-Fetching System to Cut GPU Power Draw
Every time a GPU's processing threads grab the same chunk of data from memory separately, that's wasted work and wasted power. Nvidia's…
Sony Patents a Two-Camera 3D Scanning System That Corrects Its Own Positioning Errors
Building an accurate 3D digital copy of a real object is harder than it sounds. Sony's new patent describes a system where…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Camera Eye System That Moves Like Human Eyes for Robots
Human eyes do three things simultaneously: they pan left and right, tilt up and down, and converge toward objects at different distances.…
Sony Patents a Game Controller That Replaces Buttons with a Rotating Dial
Sony is exploring a game controller where part of the input surface can be swapped out and controlled by a spinning dial…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Track Image Edges When the Lighting Shifts
Tracking a moving object in video sounds straightforward until the lighting changes between frames. Qualcomm has filed a patent for a hardware…
Nvidia Patents a Chip Design That Runs AI's Hardest Math Simultaneously Faster
Neural networks run on a lot of math that current chip circuits handle one piece at a time. Nvidia's new patent describes…
Samsung Patents a Two-AI System for Merging Multiple Camera Frames Into One Sharp Photo
Taking a photo in tricky light means your camera is gambling: expose for the bright parts and lose the shadows, or expose…
New Patent Removes Noise From AI-Rendered Images Faster Without Sacrificing Detail
Ray tracing makes game graphics look gorgeous, but it produces noisy, grainy images that need AI cleanup. Nvidia has filed a patent…
Sony Patent Targets Flicker Noise Filtering in Event-Based Vision Sensors
Event-based cameras are among the most promising sensors in computer vision, but artificial lighting makes them noisy in a very specific, predictable…
Nvidia Patents a Single-Step Tool for Reshaping Complex Image Data on the Fly
Nvidia has patented a programming interface that lets developers collapse complex, multi-dimensional data structures in one instruction rather than chaining together multiple…
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