Qualcomm Patents a System That Stops Nearby Shelf Labels from Flashing the Same Alert
When two electronic shelf labels are inches apart and both need to flash an alert, how does a store employee know which…
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Qualcomm Patents a Wireless System That Knows When Shelf Items Go Missing
Qualcomm is patenting a way for store shelves to automatically notice when a tagged item has been picked up or removed —…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Connected Cars to Share Their Roadside Unit Links for Precise Positioning
Getting a car's precise location in a dense urban environment is harder than it sounds — GPS alone isn't enough. Qualcomm's new…
Qualcomm Patents a Cloud-Offloaded Location Engine That Filters Bad GPS and Cell Signals
Your phone uses GPS, Wi-Fi, and cell towers all at once to figure out where you are — but deciding which signals…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Wireless Network Nodes to Share Camera and Sensor Imagery for ML-Driven Positioning
Qualcomm wants wireless network nodes to pool their camera feeds, lidar scans, and RF sensor snapshots so that any node on the…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Generates Video When Your Stream Cuts Out
Instead of freezing or buffering when your internet hiccups, Qualcomm's new patent describes a device that quietly generates its own replacement video…
Qualcomm Patents a More Precise 5G Location System Using Double Round-Trip Timing
Getting a precise location fix indoors over 5G is harder than it sounds — radio signals bounce, hardware introduces tiny delays, and…
Qualcomm Patents a Self-Correcting Fix for Media Data Burst Size Mismatches
When a device says it's sending a 10MB chunk of video but actually sends 8MB, things break quietly. Qualcomm's new patent builds…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Locate Passive Backscatter Tags Using Round-Trip Timing
Qualcomm is working on a way to precisely locate tiny, battery-free radio tags — the kind you'd stick on a pallet or…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Boost Indoor Positioning by Stitching RF Snapshots Together
GPS doesn't work well inside buildings, but your phone's radio is constantly picking up signals that are subtly shaped by the environment…
Qualcomm Patents a Sensing System That Bounces Signals Across Multiple Radio Standards
Your phone already has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 5G radios sitting side by side — Qualcomm's new patent wants to turn all of…
Sony Patents a System That Drops Redundant Game Streams When Players See the Same Screen
When two players in the same game are looking at the same scene, why render and stream it twice? Sony's new patent…
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