Disney Patents an AI That Matches Bonus Content to Shows and Their Viewers
Disney has filed a patent for a system that picks supplemental content, think ads, trailers, or bonus clips, by scoring how well…
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Qualcomm Patents a Faster Way to Compress AI Model Data for Chips
Every AI model is a massive pile of numbers, and squeezing those numbers through a chip quickly is one of the hardest…
Samsung Patents a Display That Dims Based on How Hot Your Phone Gets
Your phone's screen is one of the biggest reasons it overheats, and Samsung is patenting a way to automatically dial back brightness…
Samsung Patents a Display Circuit That Feeds Each Color Pixel a Different Voltage
Most phone screens treat all their pixels equally at reset time, sending the same baseline voltage to red, green, and blue dots…
Samsung Patents a Stress-Absorbing Foam Layer for Foldable Phone Screens
The fold crease on foldable phones is one of the most persistent complaints about the category, and Samsung is looking at an…
Qualcomm Patents a Graphics Chip Trick That Skips Pixel Work When Unnecessary
Every frame your phone renders is a mountain of tiny color calculations. Qualcomm's new patent describes a way for the graphics chip…
Samsung Patents a Laser System for Placing Tiny LEDs on Curved Screens
Building a screen out of millions of microscopic LEDs is painstaking work, and placing them on anything other than a flat rectangle…
Qualcomm Patents a Fix for Self-Driving Cars That See With Mismatched Cameras
Every camera on a self-driving car fires at a slightly different moment, and that tiny gap can make stationary objects look like…
Samsung Patents a Speaker Built Into a Sliding Phone's Inner Rail
Samsung is exploring a way to fit a speaker directly inside the structural rail that lets a phone's screen slide open, freeing…
Samsung Patents a Chip Circuit That Randomly Scrambles Data Before Encrypting It
Samsung is patenting a way to scramble data inside a chip before encryption even begins, using a carefully sized network of switching…
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