Samsung Patents a Camera That Predicts Lighting Before the Shutter Fires
Every time your phone's camera gets the exposure wrong on a fast-moving scene, it's because the camera is reacting instead of anticipating.…
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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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Google Patent Targets Photo Noise Reduction Where Human Eyes Actually Detect It
Your eyes are not a perfect sensor, and Google wants your phone's camera to know that. A new Google patent describes a…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Produce HDR Photos Without Doubling the Shots Needed
Getting a great HDR photo usually means your camera captures several different exposures in quick succession, which costs time and invites blur.…
Google Patents a Variable Aperture That Controls Light in Phone Cameras
Google is working on a camera aperture mechanism that lets phones control how much light hits the sensor while taking up less…
Google Patent Takes Aim at Camera Shake With a Sliding Sensor
Instead of adjusting a lens to compensate for a shaky hand, Google's latest patent describes a system that physically slides the image…
New Patent Squeezes Physical Keypad and Antenna Around a Camera Module
Samsung is working out how to cram both a physical keypad and an antenna into the tight space surrounding a camera module,…
Waymo Patents a Lens Coating That Cuts Light Loss in Its Self-Driving Car Sensors
Waymo is patenting a small but carefully engineered lens designed to capture laser light more cleanly inside its self-driving car sensors, with…
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…
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…
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