Samsung Patents Gaze-Gated Hand Tracking to Cut XR Processing Load
Samsung's new patent describes a wearable that only fires up full hand-skeleton tracking when you're actually looking at your hand — a…
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Samsung Patents a Display That Blends Two Viewing Angles with a Dimmed Transition Zone
Samsung is filing patents for a screen that can show different content to different viewers — and it's figured out how to…
Samsung Patents a Block-Based System for Storing Image Edits More Efficiently
Every time you slap a sticker or text overlay on a photo, your phone stores more data than it needs to. Samsung's…
Samsung Patents an Error-Detecting Charging System for Cordless Vacuums
Samsung is patenting a vacuum cleaner that watches its own charging process in real time — comparing voltages at both ends of…
Samsung Patents Mid-Stream Codec Switching for Broadcast Audio
Samsung is patenting a way for a Bluetooth audio transmitter to silently renegotiate how it compresses audio — mid-stream, without dropping the…
Apple Patents a Differential Drive Touch Panel to Cut Noise
Touch screens have a noise problem — and Apple thinks the fix is sending two opposing signals at once, then listening for…
Google Patents a Two-Stage Video Transform That Fakes Large-Block Compression
Google has filed a patent for a video compression trick that gets the quality benefits of large transform blocks without actually having…
Google Patents an ML System That Reads Wind Farm Charts to Forecast Power Output
Instead of feeding raw sensor data into a forecasting model, Google's patent describes turning a wind farm's performance history into an image…
Microsoft Patents a Capability-Based Gatekeeper for Human Presence Sensors
Modern Windows PCs increasingly ship with sensors that detect whether a human is sitting in front of them — and Microsoft is…
Nvidia Patents a Token-Mapping Table That Lets LLMs Call APIs Without Errors
When an AI agent tries to call an external tool, the gap between 'what the model outputs' and 'what the API actually…
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