Intel Patents a Display That Draws Less Power When Your Screen Is Dark
Your laptop uses roughly the same amount of power to show a pitch-black movie scene as it does a blazing white spreadsheet.…
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Intel Patents a Battery-Saving Trick That Shrinks Your Screen's Active Area
When your laptop is running low on battery, Intel wants to shrink the active portion of your screen and power down the…
Sony Patent: Camera Uses AI to Select Which Scene Areas to Capture
Most camera sensors dutifully read every single pixel, every single frame, whether anything interesting is happening or not. Sony's new patent describes…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Reduces the Number of Wireless Chip Tests Needed
Every radio chip in your phone has to be individually tested and tuned before it ships. Qualcomm thinks machine learning can do…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Run AI Calculations Inside the Memory Chip Itself
One of the biggest drags on AI performance is simply moving numbers back and forth between memory and a processor. Qualcomm's latest…
Qualcomm Patents a Display System That Corrects Pixels on the Fly
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a display processor that decides in real time whether to apply a pixel-correction filter, skipping it…
IBM Patents a Wearable That Charges Itself from Sunlight, Body Heat, or Motion
IBM has filed a patent for a wearable device that never needs to be plugged in, at least in theory. It charges…
IBM Patents Image Compression That Cuts Storage Without Sacrificing Picture Quality
IBM's new patent describes a way to compress images by doing the heavy, approximate math cheaply and the fine-tuning math carefully, mixing…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Works Harder to Fix Weak Cellular Signals
Samsung's latest patent describes a modem chip that measures the quality of the wireless signal it's receiving and then decides how much…
Samsung Patents a Three-Panel Foldable Phone That Bends at Two Points
Samsung is filing patents for a device that folds not once, but twice, using three separate panels that get progressively narrower as…
Samsung Patents a Way to Route Chip Data Through Ordinary CPU Registers
Most chips need special instructions to feed data to an AI accelerator. Samsung's new patent skips the custom plumbing entirely by hijacking…
Samsung Patents a Detachable Lens Cap That Keeps Unwanted Light Out of VR Headsets
Light leaking around the edges of a headset lens is one of those small but annoying problems that pulls you out of…
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