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 —…
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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…
Sony Patents a Context-Aware Eye-Tracking System That Knows What You're Trying to Select
Picking things with your eyes sounds simple — until you realize your gaze wanders constantly and the wrong item keeps getting highlighted.…
Sony Patents a System That Auto-Tunes Camera Settings During 3D Scanning
Getting a clean 3D scan of a real-world object is surprisingly hard — bad exposure, wrong angle, or tricky lighting can ruin…
Sony Patents a Spatial Audio System That Moves Your Caller Closer as Your Relationship Deepens
Sony is patenting a way to make remote calls feel more like real conversations — by placing each caller's voice at a…
Intel Patents a Real-Time System for Scoring How Good Encoded Video Actually Looks
Encoding video fast is one thing — knowing whether the result actually looks good to a human eye, in real time, is…
Intel Patents a Video Call Background Remover That Remembers What's Behind You
Most video call background replacement tools guess what's behind you frame by frame — Intel's patent takes a different approach, quietly building…
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