Every Big Tech filing we've broken down, newest first. We read what the major companies publish and cover the ones worth knowing, in plain English.
Ray tracing, the technique that makes 3D graphics look photo-realistic, is enormously expensive to compute. Nvidia's new patent tackles a specific headache:…
When a chip's internal clock drifts, the data it produces can become unreliable without anything obviously breaking. Nvidia's patent describes a system…
Sony is patenting a way to precisely manage how frequently the LEDs in a display array blink off, a subtle but important…
Most surround-sound systems assume your speakers are in the 'right' spots. Samsung is patenting a way to automatically fix the audio mix…
Sony is working on a camera sensor that runs incoming light through two separate polarization filters in sequence, aiming to capture four…
Say 'closer' while waving your hand and the camera zooms in. Say 'wider' with the same wave and it zooms out. Apple…
Samsung's latest patent describes smart glasses that watch where your hand is going, then wake up your smart ring just in time…
Sony is designing a camera sensor where some pixels act as a rapid-response early-warning system, telling the rest of the sensor how…
Anyone who has stood in front of a large LED video wall and noticed faint stripes or uneven brightness patches knows the…
Every time a wide-angle camera corrects its fisheye distortion or a self-driving car straightens a skewed road view, software has to crunch…
We read every patent application Big Tech publishes and send you the ones worth knowing. Plain English, free, every week.
