Samsung Patents a Phone-Guided Way to Pair Nearby Sensors with IoT Devices
Setting up a smart home often means manually telling your phone which sensors belong to which device — a process that's tedious…
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Samsung Patents a Light That Adapts to Your Room's Sun Exposure Over the Day
A north-facing office and a south-facing living room need very different amounts of artificial light at 2pm — Samsung's new patent is…
Samsung Patents Radar Technology That Pinpoints Multiple Objects Hiding Behind Each Other
When a radar signal bounces off the same object from two slightly different directions at the same time, most systems get confused…
Meta's New Patent Reveals How Its Muscle-Reading Wristband Stays Connected to Itself
Meta is quietly building out the internal plumbing of a wristband that reads your muscle signals — and this patent covers how…
Sony Patents a Snap-Together Modular System for Releasing Scents on Demand
Sony is patenting a building-block approach to scent delivery — individual aroma cartridges that each hold a different smell, form a directed…
Samsung Patents a Ray Simulation Correction Method for LiDAR Sensors
LiDAR sensors are only as good as the light signals they receive — and in the real world, those signals get messy.…
Qualcomm Patents GPS-Assisted Motion Estimation for 3D Point Cloud Compression
Compressing 3D LiDAR data is brutally hard — the scene changes every millisecond and every point in space needs to move with…
Samsung Patents a Self-Validating Device Positioning System
Most location systems give you a position and move on — Samsung's patent adds a step where the device stops and asks…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Wavelength LiDAR System with Optical Path Separation
Samsung is working on a LiDAR system that fires multiple light beams at different wavelengths simultaneously — and uses a clever optical…
Samsung Patents a Washing Machine That Learns Your Water Usage Habits
Samsung is filing patents on washing machines that don't just clean your clothes — they track how you use water over time…
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Lighting System for Freezer Drawers
Opening the top freezer drawer is simple — always turn the lights on. But opening the bottom drawer? Samsung thinks that deserves…
Waymo Patents a Hybrid LiDAR System That Untangles Speed and Distance Readings
When a self-driving car's sensor sees several objects at once, knowing how far away something is doesn't help much if you can't…
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