Sony's New Patent Cuts Projector Scanning to Only What the Image Needs
Sony has filed a patent for a projector that deliberately restricts its own scanning area, drawing images only within a sub-region of…
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Sony Patents a Drone Arm That Locks Itself Open Automatically
Folding drone arms are a well-worn idea, but they have a quiet failure point: you have to remember to lock them before…
Samsung Patents a Fix That Makes Gaps Between Joined Screens Invisible
Every time display makers bolt two screens together, they face the same headache: the seam between panels looks brighter or dimmer than…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Render Different Parts of a Photo at Different Resolutions
Most phone cameras treat every pixel in a frame the same way. Qualcomm's new patent describes a chip-level trick that lets different…
Sony Patents a Fix That Keeps Video Quality Settings From Going Haywire
A small numerical drift inside a video encoder can corrupt image quality, and Sony has patented a method to stop it before…
Samsung Patents a Phone That Slides Open to Reveal a Bigger Screen
Samsung is working on a phone where the screen physically slides out to become larger, and the device's protective trim pieces are…
Samsung Patents a Galaxy Ring Feature That Shows Battery Life via PPG Sensor Blinks
Smart rings have no screens, which raises a genuinely awkward question: how do you check the battery? Samsung's answer is to steal…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Sharpens Detail in Dim or Fast-Moving Shots
Sony has patented a way to make image sensors work more efficiently by letting the chip dial its own precision up or…
Sony Patent: Tracking Moving Objects Using Camera Pixels That Fire on Change
Most cameras waste enormous effort recording a scene that barely changed. Sony is working on a smarter way to read cameras that…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Keeps Extra Color Pixels From Breaking Your Photos
Camera sensors are experimenting with pixels beyond red, green, and blue, but those extra colors can confuse the software that turns raw…
Nvidia Patents Software That Chooses How to Sharpen Your Blurry Images Faster
Choosing the right algorithm to reconstruct an image is usually a job for a human expert. Nvidia is filing patents on a…
Samsung Patents a Self-Correcting 3D Display That Fixes Its Own Sync Problems
If you've ever watched a 3D movie and noticed the image going slightly double or ghostly, you've experienced a sync problem between…
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