Sony Patents a Way to Slow Light Down and Make Sensors Far More Precise
Sony is patenting a way to make light travel more slowly through a tiny ring-shaped optical circuit — and that trick, if…
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Sony's New Patent Chains Wireless Signals Together to Find You Inside a Building
GPS is useless indoors, and Bluetooth or Wi-Fi alone often can't tell exactly where you are in a room. Sony's new patent…
Sony's New Patent Fakes 3D Sound from Game Audio That Was Never Recorded That Way
Your brain figures out where a sound is coming from by noticing which ear hears it first. Sony has filed a patent…
Sony's New Patent Packs a Full Depth-Sensing Camera onto a Single Chip
Sony is working on a way to pack an entire light-based depth sensor — the kind used in self-driving cars and face-ID…
Sony's New Patent Stops Electrical Noise from Making OLED Screens Flicker
Every OLED screen has a dirty little secret: the wires that carry image data also accidentally push and pull on the pixels…
Qualcomm's New Patent Teaches Cameras to Focus Using Their Own HDR Data
Autofocus struggles most when the light in a scene is all over the place — one patch too bright, another too dark.…
IBM's New Patent Wants AI to Hunt Down the Hidden Defects Disrupting Its Quantum Computers
Quantum computers are plagued by tiny, unpredictable energy traps inside their hardware — and IBM wants a machine learning model to hunt…
IBM Patents a Way to Snap Quantum Computer Chambers Together Like Building Blocks
Quantum computers have to run at temperatures colder than outer space — and right now, that's a serious bottleneck on how big…
Samsung's New Patent Gives Each Fold Its Own Protective Layer to Stop Cracking
Folding a screen once is hard enough — folding it twice, without the surface cracking or creasing unevenly, is an entirely different…
Samsung Patents a Pixel That Bounces Light Back Instead of Letting It Escape
Samsung is patenting a pixel design that essentially bounces light back through the sensor's detector instead of letting it escape — a…
Samsung's Latest Patent Pulls the Control Chip Off the Screen Itself
Samsung Display has filed a patent that physically separates the chip controlling a screen from the screen itself — both sitting on…
Samsung's New Patent Gives Red, Green, and Blue Pixels Their Own Resting Voltage
Every pixel on your screen sits at a resting voltage between frames — and Samsung thinks setting a different resting point for…
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