Nvidia Patents a Faster Way to Shrink Complex 3D Models Without Losing Detail
Every 3D scene in a game or simulation is built from millions of tiny triangles, and shrinking that mesh down to something…
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Google Patents a Compact Camera Lens Built to Capture Broad Scenes
Google has patented a specific wide-angle lens arrangement that keeps the front element unusually small relative to the overall lens length, a…
Qualcomm Patent Targets Video Filter Selection Through Encoding Error Analysis
Every compressed video frame carries hidden clues about what went wrong during compression. Qualcomm's new patent wants decoders to read those clues…
Samsung Patents an Asymmetric LED Mounting System for TV Backlights
Getting even light across a large TV screen sounds simple, but the engineering is surprisingly tricky. Samsung's latest patent tackles that problem…
Qualcomm Patents Flat Camera Tech That Judges How Far Away Objects Are
What if you could get 3D depth sensing from a camera module that's essentially flat? That's the idea behind Qualcomm's new patent…
Qualcomm Patent Targets AI Memory Bottlenecks With Fused GEMM-RoPE Kernel
Every time an AI model processes language, it runs the same two math operations back to back, and each handoff burns time…
IBM Patents a 3D Printing Method That Uses Sound Waves to Float Powder Into Place
IBM is patenting a 3D printing approach that floats powder particles in mid-air using sound waves, then locks them into objects with…
Nvidia Patents a System That Keeps AI Calculations Running Without Idle Delays
GPUs are only useful when they're actually computing, not sitting idle waiting for data to arrive. Nvidia's latest patent tackles exactly that…
Qualcomm Patents a More Efficient Way for AI Chips to Handle Complex Math
AI chips spend a surprising amount of energy doing complex math that could be approximated more cheaply. Qualcomm's new patent describes a…
Fast Light Field Rendering Patent Reuses Cached Frame Data
Rendering a 3D scene from dozens of angles at once is expensive work, and graphics hardware has to repeat a lot of…
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