Sony Patents a Two-Camera 3D Scanning System That Corrects Its Own Positioning Errors
Building an accurate 3D digital copy of a real object is harder than it sounds. Sony's new patent describes a system where…
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Samsung Patents a Dual-Camera Eye System That Moves Like Human Eyes for Robots
Human eyes do three things simultaneously: they pan left and right, tilt up and down, and converge toward objects at different distances.…
Samsung Patents a Two-AI System for Merging Multiple Camera Frames Into One Sharp Photo
Taking a photo in tricky light means your camera is gambling: expose for the bright parts and lose the shadows, or expose…
Sony Patent Targets Flicker Noise Filtering in Event-Based Vision Sensors
Event-based cameras are among the most promising sensors in computer vision, but artificial lighting makes them noisy in a very specific, predictable…
Intel Patent Fixes the Fake Look of Virtual Backgrounds
Virtual backgrounds on video calls have a tell: your face looks like it was photographed under fluorescent office lights and pasted onto…
Sony Patents a Camera That Uses Flickering Light Bands to Build Richer Images
Sony is patenting a camera system that rapidly pulses different types of light at a subject and then uses the timing of…
Disney Patent Reveals a Smart Camera Trigger That Waits for the Perfect Shot
Disney has patented a camera setup where one small 'watcher' camera monitors a scene and automatically fires a bigger, better camera only…
Qualcomm Patents a Camera Self-Calibration Method Using Cylindrical Image Wrapping
When a camera on a car or phone is even slightly tilted, every reading it feeds to a navigation or detection system…
Samsung Patent Details Robot Vacuum and Phone Camera Collaboration for 3D Home Mapping
Your robot vacuum already knows the floor plan of your home. Samsung's new patent asks: what if your phone's camera could turn…
Sony Patents a 3D Scanner That Does a Rough Pass Before the Real One
Sony is patenting a way to make 3D scanning faster and more precise by doing a rough draft scan first, then using…
Sony's New Patent Bakes a Proof-of-Authenticity Link Into Every Photo at the Moment It's Taken
As AI-generated images flood the internet, Sony is filing patents for a way to give every camera-captured photo its own built-in proof…
Microsoft's New Patent Teaches Depth Cameras to Stop Confusing Near and Far Objects
Time-of-flight cameras measure distance by timing how long a pulse of light takes to bounce back, but they have a fundamental quirk:…
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