Samsung Patents a Navigation Display That Knows Which Way Your Phone Is Pointing
Getting turn-by-turn directions on foot has always had one annoying flaw: your phone shows you a map, but it has no idea…
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Sony Patents a Display That Projects Images Directly Onto the Eye for Sharper Focus
Sony has filed a patent for a display that skips the screen entirely and paints images directly onto your retina, using multiple…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Metal Light Filter for More Precise Image Sensors
Samsung has patented a light filter built from two different metals, each tuned to capture a different slice of the color spectrum.…
Waymo Patents a System That Helps Self-Driving Cars Plan Pull-Overs Around Hidden Spots
When a self-driving car needs to pull over, the safest spot might be one it can't yet see. Waymo has filed a…
Sony Patents a Fix for the Blurry Edges Between AR Lens Gratings
AR glasses make light do something tricky: they bounce images off tiny etched patterns inside a thin piece of glass. Where two…
Samsung Patents a Projector That Grows Its Image as the Lens Cover Opens
Most projectors just blast a full image the moment they turn on, cover or not. Samsung's new patent describes a device that…
Sony Patents a Method to Spot Cancer Cells by Comparing Dyed and Undyed Tissue Samples
Sony has filed a patent for a cell-analysis method that runs the same AI scan on two versions of a tissue sample,…
Samsung Patents a Device That Maps a Room by Looking Around and Shows Where You Are
Your phone's GPS is useless the moment you walk indoors. Samsung is patenting a system that solves that by having a device…
Meta Patents AR Glasses Where the Lens Is Part of the Frame Itself
Meta has filed a patent for a way to bake corrective lenses directly into the rigid frame of augmented reality glasses, potentially…
Qualcomm Patents an Indoor Location System That Reads the Room Around You
GPS falls apart the moment you walk inside a building. Qualcomm's new patent takes a different approach: instead of one-size-fits-all location math,…
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