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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Nvidia Patents a Way to Stitch Camera Feeds Across Two Chips Without Extra Software
Combining footage from multiple cameras usually means a lot of processing overhead. Nvidia's new patent describes a way to let the data…
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…
Sony Patents a Fix for Uneven Dimming in Cameras With Swappable Lenses
Sony is patenting a way to automatically fix a known visual flaw that appears when a liquid crystal dimmer is placed in…
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…
Sony Patent Uses Event-Based Sensors to Sharpen Imaging of Fast-Moving Cells
Photographing a single cell rushing through a laser beam is surprisingly hard. Sony thinks a type of sensor borrowed from high-speed robotics…
Nvidia Patents a Faster Way to Shrink Complex 3D Models Without Losing Detail
Every 3D scene in a game or simulation is built from millions of tiny triangles, and shrinking that mesh down to something…
Google Patents a Compact Camera Lens Built to Capture Broad Scenes
Google has patented a specific wide-angle lens arrangement that keeps the front element unusually small relative to the overall lens length, a…
Qualcomm Patent Targets Video Filter Selection Through Encoding Error Analysis
Every compressed video frame carries hidden clues about what went wrong during compression. Qualcomm's new patent wants decoders to read those clues…
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…
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