Sony Patents Headphones That Filter Out Your Own Voice While You Talk
When you wear noise-canceling headphones and start talking, your own voice can sound oddly loud or hollow in your ears. Sony is…
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Sony Patent Embeds Solar Cells Into Game Controllers to Eliminate Batteries
Sony is exploring a game controller that charges itself using light, no cable required. The patent describes solar cells built directly into…
Patent: New Pixel Design Prevents Washed-Out Photos Without Extra Processing Steps
Getting a camera sensor's pixels smaller without wrecking image quality is one of the hardest problems in consumer electronics. Sony's latest patent…
Sony Patents a Camera That Reads Dozens of Colors and Adjusts Its Own Brightness
Most cameras expose a shot by averaging three colors: red, green, and blue. Sony's new patent describes a sensor that does the…
Sony Patents a System That Tracks Environmental Decline by Scanning Plant Root Bacteria
Sony is best known for televisions and PlayStation consoles, but a newly published patent reveals the company is working on technology to…
Sony Files Patent for Radar-Based Body Fluid Monitoring
Sony is exploring a way to measure fluids inside your body, like blood, using radar signals bounced through your skin. No needle,…
Sony Files Patent for an Image Sensor That Converts Light to Data Faster
Every photo your camera takes involves a race to convert raw electrical signals into digital numbers before the next frame arrives. Sony's…
Sony Patents a Tool That Shows Where AR Location Tracking Will Fail Before It Does
AR apps that pin digital content to real-world locations need to know exactly where they are in space, and that positioning often…
Filing: Two Clocks in Every Photo End Arguments Over When It Was Taken
Every photo you take has a timestamp, but that timestamp is only as trustworthy as your camera's clock. Sony's new patent wants…
Sony Patent Aims to Conceal the Visible Grid in Glasses-Free 3D Displays
Glasses-free 3D screens have always had a hidden flaw: the physical grid that creates the 3D effect is often visible to the…
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