Sony's New Patent Fakes 3D Sound from Game Audio That Was Never Recorded That Way
Your brain figures out where a sound is coming from by noticing which ear hears it first. Sony has filed a patent…
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Sony's New Patent Lets Your Console Draw Parts of a Streamed Game Itself
Instead of relying entirely on a remote server to draw every pixel of a game, Sony's patent describes a system that lets…
Sony's New Patent Packs a Full Depth-Sensing Camera onto a Single Chip
Sony is working on a way to pack an entire light-based depth sensor — the kind used in self-driving cars and face-ID…
Sony's New Patent Stops Electrical Noise from Making OLED Screens Flicker
Every OLED screen has a dirty little secret: the wires that carry image data also accidentally push and pull on the pixels…
Sony's New Patent Keeps Your Body Movement Data on Your Device
Your body movements are surprisingly personal data. Sony is patenting a way to transmit a compressed 'fingerprint' of that motion — rather…
Sony's New Patent Splits Heavy AI Work Across Several Phones at Once
Running a heavy AI model on a phone is slow and drains the battery fast. Sony's new patent describes a way to…
Qualcomm's New Patent Gives Your Phone a Simulated World to Find Itself Indoors
Your phone's GPS struggles indoors and in dense cities because radio signals bounce unpredictably off walls and buildings. Qualcomm's new patent proposes…
Qualcomm's New Patent Stops AR Glasses from Filming What You're Not Looking At
Your AR headset is doing a lot of work to show you the real world in high detail — but what if…
Qualcomm's New Patent Teaches Cameras to Focus Using Their Own HDR Data
Autofocus struggles most when the light in a scene is all over the place — one patch too bright, another too dark.…
IBM's New Patent Replaces CAPTCHAs With a Live Video Test to Spot Bots
Forget ticking boxes of traffic lights — IBM's latest patent describes a live video call where an AI watches you complete physical…
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