Sony Patents a Way to Control Sound Directly From a Motion-Sensing Camera
Sony has filed a patent for a system that uses a special kind of motion-sensing camera to generate or control sound in…
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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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Sony Patents Factory Sensor That Spots Tiny Cracks the Moment They Appear
Sony has filed a patent for a surface-inspection system that replaces slow, frame-by-frame cameras with a sensor that only reacts when something…
Apple Patents a True Optical Zoom Lens That Fits Inside a Thin Phone
Getting a real optical zoom into a phone camera is hard because zoom lenses need room to move. Apple is patenting a…
Qualcomm Patent Offloads Camera Processing to Companion Device When Battery Drains
Your phone's camera does a lot of heavy lifting, and Qualcomm has a patent for making it hand off that work to…
Sony's New Patent Cuts Measurement Errors That Blur Distance Readings Frame by Frame
Every depth-sensing camera lies a little. Sony has a patent for a simple timing trick that makes those lies cancel each other…
Sony Patents a Camera System That Detects Surface Damage Using Filtered Light Angles
Sony is patenting a way for cameras to detect tiny surface defects, scratches, or material wear by photographing an object under different…
Sony Patents Technology That Lets Cameras Read Colors More Accurately, Faster
Getting a camera's color sensor to read wavelengths accurately normally takes a time-consuming calibration pass. Sony's new patent describes a way to…
Sony Patents Technology That Maps a Person's Full Body Shape From a Camera
Sony is working on a system that takes the raw cloud of 3D dots a depth camera captures and automatically maps them…
Sony Patent Splits Shadow and True Color Data From Any Photograph
Every photo you've ever taken is a mix of two things: the actual color of an object and the shadows cast by…
Samsung Patents a Single Camera Light That Switches Between Scanning and Mapping Faces
Samsung has filed a patent for a camera illumination module that can flip electrically between two completely different lighting patterns for depth…
Sony Patents a Camera System That Reads Colors and Measures Distance Simultaneously
Sony has filed a patent for a camera system that uses two specialized color sensors with overlapping light bands to calculate depth…
Sony Patents a Two-Material Light Guide Design for Image Sensors
Sony is rethinking how light gets routed inside a camera sensor, and the answer involves mixing two different materials at a microscopic…
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