Sony Files Patent to Prevent Event Camera Saturation in Bright Light Conditions
Event cameras are one of the most promising sensor technologies for robotics and self-driving vehicles, but they have a nasty habit of…
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Samsung Patent: Elastic Buffer Layer Shields Display Chip Bump Connections From Damage
Samsung Display has patented a way to place a small elastic buffer between the tiny metal contacts that connect a chip to…
Google Files Patent for a Round Display That Wraps Pixels Around Its Own Edge
Google is patenting a circular display where the screen doesn't just stop at the edge. It curves around the rim, squeezing extra…
Samsung Patents a New Way to Wire Pixels Together Inside a Camera Chip
Samsung is rethinking how individual pixels inside a camera sensor talk to each other, using a shared metal pad that bridges two…
Qualcomm Patents a Video Filter That Removes Blurring and Blocky Distortions from Streamed Footage
When video gets compressed for streaming, edges and colors often fall apart. Qualcomm's new patent describes a filtering approach that uses both…
Samsung Patents an Asymmetric LED Mounting System for TV Backlights
Getting even light across a large TV screen sounds simple, but the engineering is surprisingly tricky. Samsung's latest patent tackles that problem…
Fast Light Field Rendering Patent Reuses Cached Frame Data
Rendering a 3D scene from dozens of angles at once is expensive work, and graphics hardware has to repeat a lot of…
Sony Patent Stacks Photon Counting Stages to Sharpen Low-Light Images
Sony is patenting a way to add up light readings from multiple rows of image sensor pixels before the data ever leaves…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Lets Wearable Displays Pivot in Two Directions
Apple has filed a patent for a hinge that lets a wearable device's arm flex in two different directions at once, which…
Sony Files Patent for Display Screens With Built-In Temperature Sensors Per Block
Instead of treating a screen as one big panel with one temperature reading, Sony wants to monitor the heat in each individual…
Apple Patents a Hinge That Hides Wiring Inside Smart Glasses Arms
Apple has filed a patent for a hinge mechanism that does two jobs at once: it lets a wearable display's arms fold…
Smart Glasses Hinge Patent Seals Out Water and Dust
Folding the arms on a pair of smart glasses is a surprisingly tricky engineering problem when water is involved. Meta's latest patent…
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