Sony Patent Filing Targets Noise Reduction in Stacked Three-Chip Camera Sensors
Most camera sensors are one flat chip doing everything at once. Sony's new patent describes splitting that job across three separate chips…
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Samsung Patent Controls Mirror Display Brightness According to Content Region Size
Samsung is patenting a mirror display that watches how much of its screen is actually showing content, then adjusts brightness accordingly. It's…
Samsung Patents a Sensor Design That Captures Light From Wider Angles
Most light sensors only see what's directly in front of them. Samsung Display is patenting a way to physically tilt the angle…
Sony Patent Merges Transistor Gates to Boost Image Sensor Performance
Sony is rethinking how the tiny electronic switches inside a camera sensor are built, merging two separate gate controls into one continuous…
Sony Patents a Chip That Captures Sharp Photos and Distance Data Simultaneously
Most phone cameras need separate hardware to figure out how far away things are. Sony's latest patent describes a single stacked sensor…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Pre-Pack 3D Scene Geometry for Faster Rendering
Every time a GPU renders a 3D scene, it has to figure out how to cram thousands of triangles into memory as…
Nvidia Patents a System That Speeds Up 3D Graphics by Recycling Stored Shape Data
Nvidia is patenting a way for its GPUs to skip redundant geometry calculations by storing ready-made 3D building blocks and snapping new…
Nvidia Patents a Way for GPU Thread Groups to Share Memory Directly
Nvidia has filed a patent for a low-level API that lets separate groups of GPU workers read each other's memory without going…
Nvidia Patents Reusable Shortcuts That Speed Up How 3D Scenes Are Lit
Building a 3D scene in real time is expensive work, and a big chunk of that cost comes from organizing geometry before…
Nvidia Patents Software That Tracks Multiple Moving Objects Through 3D Space
Keeping track of dozens of moving cars, cyclists, and pedestrians at once is one of the hardest problems in self-driving technology. Nvidia's…
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