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…
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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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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…
Samsung Patents a Compact 4-Lens Camera Design for Wide-Angle Shots
Samsung is filing patents on a tightly constrained 4-lens optical system designed to pack wide-angle coverage into a physically small camera module…
Samsung Patents a Fix for Misaligned Frames in Multi-Shot Camera Captures
When your phone blends multiple photos into one — for HDR, night mode, or RAW captures — tiny timing mismatches between frames…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor That Does Autofocus and HDR at the Same Time
Most cameras have to choose between gathering autofocus data and capturing a wide exposure range in a single shot. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Patents a Two-Pass Lens Shading Fix That Cleans Up Video Stabilization Artifacts
When your phone stabilizes a shaky video by cropping and shifting the frame, it quietly breaks the color correction it just applied.…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Reads Motion Before You Tap the Shutter
Most cameras react to motion blur after the fact — Samsung's new patent wants to detect motion in the viewfinder and dial…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Pre-Focuses Before You See the Viewfinder
Samsung is patenting a way to have your phone's camera already focused on your subject before the camera app has even finished…
Sony Patents a System That Auto-Tunes Camera Settings During 3D Scanning
Getting a clean 3D scan of a real-world object is surprisingly hard — bad exposure, wrong angle, or tricky lighting can ruin…
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