Samsung Patents a System That Recalibrates Your Phone's Altitude Sensor After You Drop It
Drop your phone and the barometric pressure sensor inside it can shift out of calibration feeding bad altitude data to every app…
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Qualcomm Patents a Camera System That Exposes Each Object in a Scene Separately
Your phone already takes multiple shots at different brightness levels and blends them together. Qualcomm's new patent takes that further by deciding…
Apple Patent: iPhone Charging That Adjusts Based on How You're Using Your Phone
Apple is working on a wireless battery pack that doesn't just dump power into your iPhone at full speed all the time.…
Samsung Patents Audio Cleanup That Evens Out Sound From Narrow Speaker Grilles Across a Room
Slot speakers, the thin audio grilles crammed into the edges of phones and tablets, have a well-known problem: they sound great in…
Apple Patents a Camera-Motion Trick to Compress Video More Efficiently
Every time your iPhone records a video, it's constantly guessing where every part of the image moved from one frame to the…
Apple Patent Shows Two Wireless Radios Working Together to Detect Nearby Objects
What if your iPhone could detect that someone is standing near it, not using a camera or a dedicated sensor, but by…
Qualcomm Patents a Display Trick That Keeps Partial Screen Updates Sharp
When only part of your phone's screen needs to refresh, a conflict can arise between the chip doing the image processing and…
Samsung Patents a Compass Calibration System That Adapts to Which Sensors Are On
Your phone's compass is almost always slightly wrong, and correcting it depends on knowing how the phone is moving. Samsung's latest patent…
Patent: Camera That Reads Light Flickers Catches Factory Defects in Real Time
Most factory cameras take pictures the same way your phone does, snapping full frames many times per second. Sony is patenting a…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Keeps Your Phone's Frame Rate From Stuttering
Frame rate drops and stutters are one of the most common complaints about mobile gaming and video apps. Qualcomm's new patent describes…
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