Qualcomm Patents a Wireless System That Knows When Shelf Items Go Missing
Qualcomm is patenting a way for store shelves to automatically notice when a tagged item has been picked up or removed —…
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Qualcomm Patents a Way for Connected Cars to Share Their Roadside Unit Links for Precise Positioning
Getting a car's precise location in a dense urban environment is harder than it sounds — GPS alone isn't enough. Qualcomm's new…
Qualcomm Patents a Two-Layer Biometric System That Splits Your Fingerprint Data Across Isolated Chip Zones
Qualcomm wants to make stealing your biometric data much harder by ensuring that no single chip environment ever holds the complete picture…
Qualcomm Patents a Map-Aware System That Sends Intersection Safety Alerts
Intersections are where most serious crashes happen, and a lot of safety systems struggle with curved roads. Qualcomm is filing a patent…
Qualcomm Patents a Color-Aware Frame-Dropping System for Smoother Video Playback
When a game runs at 90fps but your screen refreshes at 120Hz, something has to give — and Qualcomm thinks analyzing color…
Qualcomm Patents a Context-Aware Object Detection Filter for Self-Driving Cars
Most object detectors treat every part of the frame equally — but Qualcomm's new patent lets a car's vision system raise or…
Qualcomm Patents Presence Detection That Adapts to Foldable Phone Angles
Your foldable phone held flat on a desk behaves very differently than one propped up at a 120-degree angle — and Qualcomm…
Qualcomm Patents a Cloud-Offloaded Location Engine That Filters Bad GPS and Cell Signals
Your phone uses GPS, Wi-Fi, and cell towers all at once to figure out where you are — but deciding which signals…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Train AI Models Faster Over Noisy Wireless Networks
Training an AI model across thousands of phones simultaneously sounds chaotic — especially when half of them have weak signal. Qualcomm's new…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Automatically Lowers GPU Work During Heavy Mobile Game Frames
Qualcomm is patenting a way for a phone's graphics driver to automatically detect when a game frame is about to be expensive…
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