Google Patents Earbuds That Detect Your Gestures by Listening to Your Ear Canal
What if your earbuds could tell when you nod, clench your jaw, or raise your hand — without any camera, touchpad, or…
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How phones and headsets see: image sensors, lenses, autofocus tricks, and the processing that turns light into photos. We track every camera filing as it publishes.
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Nvidia Patents a System to Automatically Calibrate Hundreds of Cameras at Once
Getting dozens — or hundreds — of cameras to agree on where they are in the world is one of the most…
Nvidia Patents a Fix That Stops Invisible Light From Corrupting Photo Colors
Every time a camera sensor detects both visible light and infrared light, it risks confusing the two — turning a crisp, accurate…
Samsung Patents a Way to Measure How Far Away a Pedestrian Is Using a Moving Camera
Most cameras can see a pedestrian. Knowing exactly how far away that person is — without a laser or a radar —…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor That Uses Nanoscale Lenses to Split Light for Autofocus
Samsung is rethinking how a camera sensor captures light — not with traditional glass optics, but with microscopic pillars smaller than a…
Qualcomm Patents a Camera That Follows Your Eyes to Decide What to Capture
What if your camera already knew what you were about to look at — and started focusing there before you even pressed…
Sony Patents a Camera That Shrinks Unedited Photo Files Based on Your Intended Print Size
Sony's new patent describes a camera that decides how much to compress a RAW photo file based on how big the final…
Google's New Patent Fixes the Dark-Face Problem in Backlit Photos
Your phone's camera picks one exposure for an entire scene — which is why your friend's face goes dark when there's a…
Apple's New Patent Stops You From Holding Your Phone the Wrong Way for 3D Video
Shooting spatial video wrong is easy — you hold the phone in portrait when you should be in landscape, and the 3D…
Samsung Patents an Antenna That Wraps Around the Camera to Save Space
As smartphone cameras keep growing, they're eating up the real estate that antennas need. Samsung's latest patent tackles that trade-off head-on by…
Samsung Patents a Camera Sensor That Captures Photos Two Ways at Once
Samsung is patenting a camera sensor that shoots in two different shutter modes simultaneously and merges the results — a practical attempt…
Samsung Patents a Robot That Picks Up Its Own Sensor to See Around Obstacles
Most robots go blind when something blocks their sensors. Samsung's new patent describes a robot that solves that problem by picking up…
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