Dynamic RF Power Cuts Trigger When Body Proximity Is Detected
Your iPhone already lowers its radio power when it thinks your body is nearby — Apple's new patent makes that system far…
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Google Patents a Cellular Radio That Uses Sensor Data to Optimize Its Own Signals
Most wireless radios are blind to the physical world around them — they just blast signals and hope for the best. Google's…
Google Patents an ML-Driven Way to Fill In Video Frames During Compression
When a video codec compresses a frame, it has to predict what each block of pixels looks like before encoding it —…
Google Patents a More Efficient Way to Compress Video Transform Blocks
Google is filing patents on the low-level math that makes video smaller — and this one targets the specific order in which…
Google Patents a Way to Hand Your Phone Off From Satellite to Cell Tower Automatically
Satellite connectivity is great when you're off the grid, but switching back to a regular cell tower should be seamless — and…
Meta Patents a Dual-Resolution Display Panel to Widen AR Headset Field of View
Meta is experimenting with a single display panel that carries two different resolution zones side by side — a trick that could…
Nvidia Patents a System for Simulating Entire Wireless Networks on a Processor
Building and testing a cellular network is expensive — you need towers, devices, and real radio spectrum. Nvidia's new patent describes a…
Nvidia Patents a Faster Multistage Motion Search for Video Encoding
Video encoders spend a surprising amount of time just figuring out how pixels moved between frames — and Nvidia thinks it has…
Nvidia Patents an API That Batches Tensor Math Into a Single GPU Call
Every time a GPU switches between separate math operations, there's overhead. Nvidia's new patent describes an API designed to collapse a chain…
Nvidia Patents a LiDAR-Only System That Tracks Moving Objects for Self-Driving Cars
Most self-driving perception systems lean heavily on cameras and radar to track how fast other objects are moving. Nvidia's new patent describes…
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