Sony's New Patent Makes Surfaces Feel Harder or Softer on Demand
Sony has filed a patent for a device that makes a surface feel harder or softer on demand, not with motors or…
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Google Patents a Way to Send Where Sounds Come From During a Call
When you call someone, all sense of where each voice is coming from gets flattened into a single stream of sound. Google…
Google Patents a Fix for Cameras That Lose Focus in Bright Light
Taking a photo of someone standing in front of a bright window almost always ends badly: the camera either exposes for the…
Sony Patents an Image Sensor That Converts Light to Data Faster and at Lower Power
Sony has filed a patent for an image sensor design that uses a bank of switches to control when each pixel's comparator…
Samsung Patent Filing Targets Cameras That Adapt Between Bright and Dark Scenes
Samsung has filed a patent for an image sensor that can switch between two different electrical reference signals on the fly, a…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor Design That Bridges Pixel Charge-Storage Regions
Every pixel in a digital camera has a tiny charge-storage pocket, and electrical interference in that pocket is one of the main…
Intel Patents a Processor Instruction for Faster Parallel Matrix Math
Matrix multiplication is the core arithmetic behind almost every AI model, and Intel is patenting a way to make processors handle it…
Samsung Patents a Light-Control Coating That Keeps Wearable Sensors Accurate
Tiny health sensors inside smartwatches and rings need darkness around them to work properly. Samsung's new patent describes a coating layer built…
Qualcomm Patents a Color-Tuning System That Focuses Only on What You're Looking At
Most phones boost color across an entire photo, making the background pop just as much as the face you actually care about.…
Sony Patent: Spectral Camera Chips Selectively Stream Only Necessary Pixel Data
Sony's latest patent describes a sensor chip that doesn't always send everything it sees, on alternating frames, it deliberately skips data it…
Sony Patent Restores Lost Touch Signals Using Physical and Perceptual Models
When you send a touch sensation over a network, some of it inevitably gets lost. Sony is patenting a way to fill…
Sony Patents a Sensor That Detects Nearby Objects Through Invisible Electrical Disturbances
Sony has filed a patent for a sensor that can tell when something conductive (a hand, a wire, a metal surface) gets…
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