IBM Patents a System That Watches Your App Habits and Warns You When They Turn Unhealthy
IBM wants your phone to notice when you've fallen into a bad scrolling spiral and tell you about it. The patent describes…
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Sony Patents a System That Announces When VIPs Enter a Virtual World
Imagine walking into a virtual world and everyone in the room gets a notification that you just arrived. Sony is patenting exactly…
Apple Patents a Developer Dashboard That Benchmarks App Performance Against the Competition
Apple wants to tell app developers how their app stacks up against the competition without giving away anyone's exact numbers. It's a…
Google Patents Technology That Breaks Videos Into Sections for Faster Streaming
Google is patenting a video compression method that slices each frame into self-contained rectangular tiles, so a decoder can process each piece…
Apple Patents Screen Buttons That Bend Light Like Real Glass
Apple is patenting a system that makes on-screen panels and buttons look like they are physically bending the content behind them, including…
Sony Patents a Way to Show One Virtual World Playing Live Inside Another
Imagine watching a live sports match inside a video game, except the 'match' is actually happening in a completely separate virtual world.…
Apple Patents a System That Morphs On-Screen Buttons as You Navigate
Apple is patenting a way to make buttons and interactive elements flow into one another as you move between screens, rather than…
Google Patents a System That Auto-Zooms Image Search Results to the Part You Actually Searched For
When you search Google Images for something specific, you often get a thumbnail that buries the detail you care about. Google is…
Google Files Patent for a Tighter Way to Compress Video Motion Data
Every time a video compresses movement on screen, it has to store a tiny record of how far and in which direction…
Samsung Patents a Sharing Sheet That Edits Your Content Before Sending It
Every time you tap 'Share' on your phone, your content goes to the next app exactly as-is. Samsung's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a Live Screen Translator That Updates as You Scroll
Imagine reading a foreign-language news app on your phone and having every new paragraph automatically translated the moment you scroll down to…
Sony Patent Detects When You're Alone, Then Serves You Content
Sony is patenting a system that watches for the moment you're alone in an enclosed space, then uses that privacy as a…
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