IBM Patents Technology That Sorts Millions of Records Using a Text-Prediction Engine
IBM has filed a patent that feeds a classic data-sorting algorithm into the same kind of neural network architecture that powers modern…
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Qualcomm Patents a Way for Cell Towers to Use Signal Repeaters for Precise Indoor Location
GPS doesn't work well inside buildings, and cell towers alone can be imprecise. Qualcomm's new patent describes a way for networks to…
Samsung Patents a Way to Steer Reflected Speaker Sound Away From You
Samsung has filed a patent that lets a speaker deliberately cancel its own sound at your listening position, so that audio bouncing…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Home 5G Routers to Report Their Own Antenna Failures
When the little motor that steers your home 5G router's antenna starts to wear out, the router currently has no way to…
Sony Patents a Guide That Pinpoints Exactly What Is Draining Your Battery
Sony is patenting a step-by-step on-screen guide that tells you exactly which app or habit is hurting your phone battery, why it's…
Sony Patent Targets Avatar-Based Error Correction in Free-Viewpoint Sports Streams
Sony wants to stop those eerie, blurry distortions that appear when broadcasters let viewers pick their own camera angle. The fix, according…
Qualcomm Patents an AI Vision System That Corrects Itself Without Human Oversight
Training an AI model usually requires mountains of hand-labeled data. Qualcomm's latest patent describes a system where the model labels its own…
Sony Patents a Light-Based Sensor That Reads Data Through Walls and Skin
Sony has filed a patent for a miniature laser that fires in the infrared range, the same light used in fiber-optic communications,…
Qualcomm Patents a Method to Cut Battery Drain When Recording Two Videos at Once
Running two video streams at once is a silent battery drain, Qualcomm's new patent tries to fix that by making two processor…
Qualcomm Patents a Shortcut That Lets Chips Talk Without Clogging Shared Bandwidth
Every time two chips in a server need to swap data, they often have to route it through a shared highway that…
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