Samsung Patents a Galaxy Ring Feature That Shows Battery Life via PPG Sensor Blinks
Smart rings have no screens, which raises a genuinely awkward question: how do you check the battery? Samsung's answer is to steal…
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Google Patents a Way to Keep Both Earbuds in Sync on a Single Audio Stream
Google's latest patent describes a counterintuitive fix for wireless earbuds: deliberately lying to your phone about whether audio arrived, so both earbuds…
Sony Patents a Two-Material Light Guide Design for Image Sensors
Sony is rethinking how light gets routed inside a camera sensor, and the answer involves mixing two different materials at a microscopic…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Sharpens Detail in Dim or Fast-Moving Shots
Sony has patented a way to make image sensors work more efficiently by letting the chip dial its own precision up or…
Sony Patent: Tracking Moving Objects Using Camera Pixels That Fire on Change
Most cameras waste enormous effort recording a scene that barely changed. Sony is working on a smarter way to read cameras that…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Keeps Extra Color Pixels From Breaking Your Photos
Camera sensors are experimenting with pixels beyond red, green, and blue, but those extra colors can confuse the software that turns raw…
Google Patents an AI System That Adjusts Chip Power Based on What You're Doing
Every chip inside your phone is constantly doing more work than it needs to, because it can't tell the difference between a…
Qualcomm Patents a Method to Scale AI That Reads Physical Space Consistently
Training an AI to understand 3D space is hard enough. Scaling that AI up without it losing track of which way is…
Samsung Patents AI That Checks Semiconductor Chip Quality Without Physical Testing
Every chip Samsung makes has to be measured for quality, but physical measurements take time and slow production. This patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a Phone That Adjusts Nearby Speakers Based on How Far Away You Are
Samsung is working on a phone that doesn't just connect to a wireless speaker, it measures how far away that speaker is…
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