Samsung Display Patents a Touch Panel That Shares Its Middle Zone Between Two Drivers
Samsung Display is patenting a touchscreen architecture that lets two separate sensor drivers co-manage a shared middle region of the panel —…
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Sony Patents a Dual-Pixel Sensor Design That Splits Brightness and Color Capture for Car Cameras
Most camera sensors make every pixel do double duty — capture both brightness and color at the same time. Sony's new patent…
Sony Patents a Wrap-Around Gate Design to Shrink Image Sensor Pixels Further
As image sensors get packed with more and more pixels, there's simply less room to fit the circuitry that actually reads them.…
Sony Patents a Game Controller That Pushes Back With a Moving Weight
Sony is exploring a new kind of game controller that doesn't just rumble — it physically nudges your hand using a weighted…
Sony Patents a Two-Color Molded Light Guide for Cleaner LED Indicators
Sony's PlayStation hardware team has patented a clever single-piece component that both channels light from an LED and blocks it from leaking…
Sony Patents a Way to Weave Real-World Voices Into Your Game's 3D Audio
What if someone talking in the room with you could appear as a directional voice inside your game's 3D audio mix —…
Sony Patents a Tile-Based Windshield Dimming System for In-Car HUDs
Heads-up displays on windshields have always had a glare problem — the real world bleeds through projected text and graphics. Sony's new…
Sony Patents a Haptic System That Maps Vibrations Through Your Body
Every human body conducts vibrations differently — and Sony wants to use that fact to make haptic feedback feel like it's happening…
Sony Patents a Snap-Together Modular System for Releasing Scents on Demand
Sony is patenting a building-block approach to scent delivery — individual aroma cartridges that each hold a different smell, form a directed…
Sony Patents a Video Encoding Trick That Skips Redundant Color Transform Data
Sony is patenting a subtle but meaningful tweak to video encoding: skip writing transform type metadata entirely when any color channel is…
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