Sony Patents a Way to Compress 3D Scans Based on Their Own Detail Level
When you compress multiple 3D scans at once, treating them all the same wastes storage on low-detail data and degrades high-detail data.…
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SSDs, DRAM, and the constant fight to move data faster while losing less of it. These filings show where storage is headed years before products ship.
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Sony Patents a LiDAR Sensor That Recovers Faster After a Blinding Flash of Light
When a laser-based distance sensor gets hit by a flood of light, it can go temporarily blind, and that's a serious problem…
Apple Patents a Light-Based Memory System for High-Powered Computing
Apple is filing patents on memory systems that route data using light instead of electricity, a shift that could matter enormously as…
Samsung Patents Technology to Stop Storage Drives From Overheating During Heavy Data Saves
Every time your SSD rewrites old data to make room for new data, it burns extra power you never asked for. Samsung…
Qualcomm Patent Targets Cache-Efficient Memory Allocation for VR Reprojection Pipelines
When a VR headset can't render fast enough, it cheats by stretching and repositioning old frames. Qualcomm's new patent is about making…
Samsung Patents Technology to Stop Long-Stored Data From Corrupting Itself Undetected
Flash memory has a quiet enemy: time. Data stored in a block that hasn't been touched in a while can literally fade,…
Samsung Patents a Way to Crash SSDs at Precisely the Right Moment
Pulling the plug on a storage drive at exactly the wrong moment is the best way to find out whether it can…
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,…
New Samsung Patent Shifts Storage Work to Where Resources Are Available
Samsung has filed a patent for a storage system that can decide, in real time, whether the drive itself or the host…
Samsung Patents a Coordinated Power-Failure Shield for Multi-Drive Storage Systems
When a server loses power mid-write, the data in transit can vanish or get corrupted. Samsung's new patent describes a way for…
Samsung Patents a Storage Drive That Reorganizes Itself When Performance Slips
Most storage drives are set up once and never touch their own internal layout again. Samsung is patenting a drive that watches…
Samsung Patents Storage That Decides How to Shrink Files on Its Own
Your SSD is constantly making judgment calls about which data to squeeze together, and those calls have a big effect on speed…
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