Apple Patents an AI System That Tailors How Your Shows Fade Into Each Other
Most streaming apps cut between videos with a single hard-coded transition. Apple is patenting a system that reads what's coming up next…
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Google Patents a Curved Internal Speaker Channel That Routes Sound Around Camera Hardware
Getting a speaker and a camera to coexist inside a slim device housing is a genuine space puzzle, and Google thinks a…
Sony Patents a Microphone Shell That Filters Sound by Direction
Sony is patenting a way to physically shape sound before it ever reaches a microphone, using a specially engineered material that changes…
Microsoft Patents a Traffic Director for AI Training Data Inside Data Centers
Training a large AI model means shoving enormous amounts of data between thousands of machines at once. Microsoft has patented a system…
Sony Patents a Way to Split High-Speed Video Processing Across Two Devices
Professional cameras that shoot at extreme frame rates generate more data than their internal chips can fully handle. Sony's new patent describes…
Samsung Patents Automatic Recovery of Missed Texts After Satellite Signal Drops
If your phone loses its satellite connection for a few minutes, any messages sent to you during that gap just disappear. Samsung's…
Google Patents a Way for Multiple Smart-Home Hubs to Split the Work
Most smart-home setups assume one hub runs everything. Google is patenting a system where multiple hubs find each other and divide up…
Sony Patents an AI System That Requests More Data Only When It Needs To
Instead of waiting for a full dataset before making a decision, Sony's patent describes an AI that pulls in data piece by…
Sony Patents a Camera Sensor That Reduces Processing Delays in Image Capture
Getting pixel data off a camera sensor fast enough, without errors, is a surprisingly hard engineering problem. Sony's new patent describes a…
Google's New Patent Lets Two Phones Find Each Other's Location Without Connecting First
Bluetooth can already tell your phone a device is nearby, but knowing exactly how far away it is normally requires a full…
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