Sony Patents a Microphone Shell That Filters Sound by Direction
Sony is patenting a way to physically shape sound before it ever reaches a microphone, using a specially engineered material that changes…
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Sony Patents a Way to Split High-Speed Video Processing Across Two Devices
Professional cameras that shoot at extreme frame rates generate more data than their internal chips can fully handle. Sony's new patent describes…
Sony Patents a Camera Sensor That Reduces Processing Delays in Image Capture
Getting pixel data off a camera sensor fast enough, without errors, is a surprisingly hard engineering problem. Sony's new patent describes a…
Sony Patents a Camera That Adjusts Its Own Light Capture on the Fly
Cameras have long struggled to capture bright sunlight and deep shadows in the same frame. Sony's latest patent describes a sensor that…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Saves a Video Clip Alongside Every Still Photo
You snap a photo, but the real moment was half a second before or after the shutter. Samsung is filing a patent…
Sony Patents a Pixel Circuit That Fires the Instant Light Changes
Most camera sensors wait until they've captured a full frame before telling you what changed. Sony's new patent describes a pixel that…
Sony Patents a System That Maps Your Room Before Placing Virtual Sounds In It
Most spatial audio systems pretend you're sitting in a perfect, empty room. Sony's new patent wants to account for the room you're…
Meta Patents Smart Glasses That Beam Your Voice to a Nearby Listener's Earbuds
Meta has filed a patent for smart glasses that can pick up the wearer's voice and stream it wirelessly, in real time,…
Sony Patents Technology That Reduces Pixel Color Data Before Saving Video Files
Sony is exploring a way to shrink video files by reducing color precision on individual pixels before compression even starts, using a…
Apple Patents a Camera Button That Changes What It Does Based on Press Pressure
A single physical button could soon do two completely different things in Apple's camera app, depending purely on how hard you press…
Sony Patents a System That Shakes Cars to a Precise Vibration Target
Sony has filed a patent for a device that clamps onto a car from the outside and shakes it to a precise,…
Sony Patents a Compact Drive Unit That Packs Circuit Boards Around a Robot Motor
Fitting a motor, a sensor, and two circuit boards into a robot's finger or wrist joint is a real space puzzle. Sony's…
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