Sony Patents a System That Announces When VIPs Enter a Virtual World
Imagine walking into a virtual world and everyone in the room gets a notification that you just arrived. Sony is patenting exactly…
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Apple Patents a New System for Grabbing and Moving Virtual Objects in AR and VR
Picking up a virtual coffee mug in AR sounds simple, but getting it to feel natural is surprisingly hard. Apple has filed…
Samsung Patents a Way to Push Content from a Nearby Screen Directly to Your Phone
Samsung is working on a system where a nearby display can silently flag your phone and say, 'Hey, there's something here meant…
Qualcomm Patents a Car Audio System That Changes What You Hear Based on Where You're Sitting
Imagine a car where the driver automatically gets navigation audio while rear-seat passengers hear a movie, all sorted out without anyone touching…
Microsoft Patents a System That Detects Fake Caller Numbers Before Your Phone Rings
Scammers fake phone numbers all the time, and your phone has no way of knowing. Microsoft is patenting a system that checks…
Samsung Patents Technology to Locate Several Nearby Devices Simultaneously With One Radio Signal
Your phone already uses ultra-wideband radio to pinpoint nearby objects with centimeter-level accuracy. Samsung's new patent wants that same radio to talk…
Apple Patents a Developer Dashboard That Benchmarks App Performance Against the Competition
Apple wants to tell app developers how their app stacks up against the competition without giving away anyone's exact numbers. It's a…
Google Patents Technology That Breaks Videos Into Sections for Faster Streaming
Google is patenting a video compression method that slices each frame into self-contained rectangular tiles, so a decoder can process each piece…
Apple Patents a Way to Find 'Down' by Reading Lines in a Camera Image
Knowing which way is 'down' sounds trivially obvious to a human, but it's a surprisingly hard problem for a device trying to…
Samsung Patents Indoor Navigation That Maps Your Location Using Wi-Fi Signal Patterns
GPS falls apart the moment you step inside a building. Samsung is working on a way to figure out exactly where you…
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