Nvidia Patents an AI Decision-Making System That Ignores Environmental Noise
AI models are notoriously sensitive to conditions they weren't trained on, producing wildly different answers from nearly identical inputs. Nvidia's latest patent…
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Sony Patent Merges Mismatched 3D Sensors Into One Precise Unified Frame
Different sensors see the world at different speeds, and that mismatch creates blurry or misaligned data. Sony's latest filing describes a way…
Finger Cuff Patent Maps Artery Pressure for Accurate BP Readings
Google is patenting a finger cuff that presses an array of tiny pressure sensors against your skin to detect your pulse and…
Samsung Patents a System That Recalibrates Your Phone's Altitude Sensor After You Drop It
Drop your phone and the barometric pressure sensor inside it can shift out of calibration feeding bad altitude data to every app…
Samsung Patents a Compass Calibration System That Adapts to Which Sensors Are On
Your phone's compass is almost always slightly wrong, and correcting it depends on knowing how the phone is moving. Samsung's latest patent…
Samsung Patents a Pressure Sensor That Knows When It's Broken
Most sensors can tell you when they detect something. Samsung's new patent describes one that can also tell you when it's stopped…
Apple Patent Pairs Devices by Reading Flashes of Light
Instead of typing a PIN or scanning a QR code to connect a new device, Apple is exploring a system where your…
Samsung Patents a Light Sensor That Tunes Its Own Sensitivity on the Fly
Most light sensors are fixed at one sensitivity level, which means they either miss faint signals or get overwhelmed by bright ones.…
Air Conditioner Patent Detects When You Fall Asleep
Samsung is patenting an air conditioner that doesn't just follow a timer, it figures out on its own when you've gone to…
Patent: Wrist Sensor Band That Snaps Into Correct Position Automatically
Meta is designing a wristband that reads electrical signals from your muscles, and it needs the sensors to land in exactly the…
Meta Patent Embeds Muscle-Reading Sensors Directly Into Wristband Material
Meta is working on a wristband that reads the electrical signals your muscles send when you move your fingers, and this patent…
Sony Patents a Prediction System for Compressing 3D Video Data
Streaming a three-dimensional scene, like a sports replay you can walk around in or a lidar map from a self-driving car, takes…
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