Nvidia Patents an AI System That Maps Intersection Zones for Self-Driving Cars
Intersections are where most crashes happen, and they're also the hardest thing to teach a self-driving car. Nvidia's latest patent describes a…
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Google Patents a Way to Pull Health Data Out of a Photo of Your Screen
Google has filed a patent for a system that can look at a photo of a device's screen and extract the health…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Map Road Hazards Point by Point for Self-Driving Cars
Before a self-driving car can decide how fast to take a curve, it needs to know whether the road is wet, uneven,…
Samsung Patents a Display That Hides Personal Info in 3D Depth
Samsung is working on a screen that automatically spots sensitive information on your phone and warps it into a 3D effect that…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Stores Light Data Differently Across Each Shot
Samsung has filed a patent for an image sensor that uses two structurally different capacitors side by side, letting each pixel store…
Qualcomm Patents a Way for Phones to Tell Networks How Much AI They Can Handle
Every phone on a cell network is different, yet networks often push the same AI model to all of them. Qualcomm's new…
Samsung Patents a Chip-Level Lens That Sorts Light by Color and Direction Simultaneously
Samsung has filed a patent for an image sensor that replaces traditional physical optics with a surface of microscopic nano-structures, capable of…
Sony Patents a Way to Fix Where Cameras Think You're Looking
Your eyes move faster than most cameras can keep up with. Sony is filing patents for a system that uses a second,…
Samsung Patents a Shaped Ink-Spreading Blade for Cleaner Display Edges
The bezel around your phone screen is painted on with an ink-printing process, and getting that ink to sit perfectly where a…
Samsung Patents a Camera Sensor That Handles Bright and Dark Areas Simultaneously
Samsung has patented a camera sensor pixel with two separate electrical pathways for moving charge off a light-catching element, a design that…
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