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Apple’s New Patent Hints at a Lighter, More Natural VR Glasses Design

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2026-01-13

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Apple’s Vision Pro proved that immersive spatial computing can look stunning. It also made something very clear. Bulky headsets are difficult to live with. A newly granted Apple patent now offers a…

Apple’s New Autofocus Sensor Patent Could Make iPhone Video Look Sharper in Motion

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2026-01-06

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Apple’s brand new patent application US 20260006927 A1, titled Image-sensing Array With Autofocus Pixels And Enhanced Resolution, focuses on a problem filmmakers run into all the time, even when they do not…

Apple’s New Sensor Shift Design Is Built for Stable Focus in Handheld Video

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2025-12-26

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For filmmakers, the biggest weakness of smartphone video has never been resolution. It has been motion. More specifically, how stabilization, autofocus, and handheld movement interact during a real shot. Walking, reframing, pulling…

Canon Patent Reveals a New Method to Accelerate Sensor Readout and Boost FPS

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2025-12-21

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Canon has filed a new patent that focuses on one very specific but very important part of digital image sensors. How fast the sensor can read image data out of its pixels.…

Apple’s New Patent Reveals a Modular Camera System With Interchangeable Lenses

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2025-12-11

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Apple is quietly imagining a future where your phone transforms into a real camera. A new patent filing from today shows a modular device that breaks the rules of today’s smartphone design…

Apple Patent Hints at Heated Foldable Display for Future iPhone

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2025-11-27

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Apple is quietly building a very different kind of foldable device. Not just a flexible screen, but a display that can sense the cold, warm itself from the inside, and even lock…

Nikon’s New Sensor Design Targets Higher Dynamic Range and Faster Readout

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2025-11-23

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Nikon has filed a fascinating patent that points toward the next stage in camera-sensor technology. The document describes a multi-layer stacked image sensor built to improve two of the most critical imaging…

Canon’s new patent reveals a self-flipping gimbal that keeps filming smoothly without blocking the frame.

Canon’s Auto-Flip Gimbal Patent: The Hidden Step Toward A Seamless Shot

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2025-11-09

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Imagine you’re filming a sweeping cinematic roll with a handheld gimbal, your camera glides, you press record, and suddenly you tip the rig too far. On most gimbals, the internal arm or…

Nikon Patents a Hybrid Image Sensor With Both Global and Rolling Shutter

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2025-09-24

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A newly published Nikon patent titled Image Sensor details a pixel architecture that could allow the same chip to function as both a global shutter and a rolling shutter sensor. If implemented,…

Apple Is Developing a Global Shutter Sensor for iPhone

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2025-09-18

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Apple is laying the groundwork for a phone camera that freezes the whole scene in one instant. That is a global shutter. And a brand new patent confirms this. It means cleaner…

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Apple’s New Patent Hints at a Lighter, More Natural VR Glasses Design

Apple’s New Autofocus Sensor Patent Could Make iPhone Video Look Sharper in Motion

Apple’s New Sensor Shift Design Is Built for Stable Focus in Handheld Video

Canon Patent Reveals a New Method to Accelerate Sensor Readout and Boost FPS

Apple’s New Patent Reveals a Modular Camera System With Interchangeable Lenses

Apple Patent Hints at Heated Foldable Display for Future iPhone

Nikon’s New Sensor Design Targets Higher Dynamic Range and Faster Readout

Canon’s Auto-Flip Gimbal Patent: The Hidden Step Toward A Seamless Shot

Nikon Patents a Hybrid Image Sensor With Both Global and Rolling Shutter

Apple Is Developing a Global Shutter Sensor for iPhone

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