Sony Patents a 3D Display That Works Harder Where Your Eyes Actually Are
Sony is patenting a way to make glasses-free 3D displays cheaper to run — by doing the heavy computing only where the…
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Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Switches Power Levels to Control Light Capture
Sony has filed a patent for a solid-state image sensor that can switch between two different operating voltages — a design that…
Sony Patents a Camera Sensor That Automatically Chooses How to Capture Depth
Sony's semiconductor division is patenting a depth sensor that doesn't need to be told how to operate — it reads the scene…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Combines Two Light Captures Before Saving a Photo
Sony's latest patent describes an image sensor that quietly blends two separate pixel readings together inside the chip itself — before the…
New PlayStation Controller Patent Fixes Analog Stick Sensitivity
If you've ever adjusted your controller's stick sensitivity and felt like the curve wasn't quite right, Sony has filed a patent that…
Sony Patents an Image Processor That Ignores the Parts of a Picture It Doesn’t Need
Most image processors crunch every pixel in a frame, whether it's relevant or not. Sony's new patent describes a chip that skips…
Sony Patents a Game Controller That Tells You When Your Settings Have Changed
Ever hit the wrong button mid-match and accidentally switched your controller layout without realizing it? Sony's new patent is designed to make…
Sony Patents a Press-Fit Grounding System for Camera Electronics
Sony has filed a patent for a camera body construction where the physical act of snapping the case shut automatically grounds the…
Intel Patents Technology That Gives AI Tasks Faster Direct Access to Chips
Intel has filed a patent for a scheduling system that lets AI workloads skip the usual software middleman and talk directly to…
Intel Patents a Streaming Buffer That Feeds AI Work Directly to the GPU
Intel is patenting a way to shortcut the memory round-trip that slows down AI processing on GPUs — by parking data in…
Xilinx Patents a Multi-Die Circuit That Gives Each Chip a Unique Hardware Fingerprint
Every chip coming off a factory line has tiny, random imperfections — and Xilinx wants to turn those imperfections into an uncloneable…
Xilinx Patents a Parallel Compression System That Switches Between Speed and File-Size Modes
Compressing data faster usually means compressing it worse. Xilinx is filing a patent for a chip-level system that runs multiple compression engines…
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