Apple Patent Lets Software Choose and Apply Movement Controls Based on Object Appearance
Animating a 3D object today means manually wiring up an invisible skeleton to every part of it, a process that can take…
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Google Patents a Way to Measure App Traffic Without Seeing Who You Are
Google wants to count how often apps talk to its network without ever learning which specific user or device is behind the…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Keep Objects Tagged While Building a 3D Map
Building a 3D map of the world is hard enough. Keeping track of which blob of pixels belongs to which chair, person,…
Apple Patents a System That Morphs On-Screen Buttons as You Navigate
Apple is patenting a way to make buttons and interactive elements flow into one another as you move between screens, rather than…
Samsung Patents 5G Location Tracking That Stays Accurate Through Signal-Boosting Hardware
Every time a 5G signal bounces through a repeater before reaching your phone, the network loses a small but meaningful amount of…
Google Patents a System That Auto-Zooms Image Search Results to the Part You Actually Searched For
When you search Google Images for something specific, you often get a thumbnail that buries the detail you care about. Google is…
Google Files Patent for a Tighter Way to Compress Video Motion Data
Every time a video compresses movement on screen, it has to store a tiny record of how far and in which direction…
Samsung Patents a Sharing Sheet That Edits Your Content Before Sending It
Every time you tap 'Share' on your phone, your content goes to the next app exactly as-is. Samsung's new patent describes a…
New VR Patent Mimics Natural Eye Focus for Sharper Images
Your eyes don't pay equal attention to everything in a VR scene, so why send equal amounts of image data for every…
Google Patent Introduces Subscription Layers to Organize Vehicle Map Service Data
Google is patenting a way to pipe map data to cars in selective layers, so each vehicle only receives the specific slices…
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