System for seeing around corners could improve self-driving cars and search-and-rescue
Light lets us see the things that surround us, but what if we could also use it to see things hidden around corners?
Oct 10, 2017
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News tagged with smartphone cameras
Consumer & Gadgets
Wearable device uses sonar to reconstruct facial expressions
Cornell researchers have developed a wearable earphone device—or "earable"—that bounces sound off the cheeks and transforms the echoes into an avatar of a person's entire moving face, utilizing acoustic technology to ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Curiosity builds over Beijing event invites for phone with 10x optical zoom
OPPO is to announce a 10x lossless smartphone zoom camera but at what level of market readiness? That is the question that had a number of tech sites talking about no definite answers but offering ample views.
Consumer & Gadgets
Patent talk: A 16-lens phone? LG is crazy (like a fox)
A patent was filed to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) titled "Mobile terminal and control method for the mobile terminal" which, if you look beyond the rather lackluster title, proposes an exciting ...
Security
Photos can be traced to individual smartphones, opening up new ways to prevent identity theft
Not comfortable with Face ID and other biometrics? This cybersecurity advancement may be for you. A University at Buffalo-led team of researchers has discovered how to identify smartphones by examining just one photo taken ...
Dec 13, 2017
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Facebook patent explores smartphone camera emotion detection to deliver relevant content
(Tech Xplore)—Think about it, that so-important entity in your life, Facebook, getting to know your emotional state and delivering content suited to how you feel.
Consumer & Gadgets
Casual, distant, aesthetically limited: Five ways smartphone photography is changing how we see the world
Smartphones are a staple of modern life and are changing how we see the world and show it to others. Almost 90% of Aussies own one, and we spend an average of 5.6 hours using them each day. Smartphones are also responsible ...
Nov 27, 2023
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The camera never lied... until AI told it to
An amateur photographer who goes by the name "ibreakphotos" decided to do an experiment on his Samsung phone last month to find out how a feature called "space zoom" actually works.
Apr 9, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Ready for your Zoom: What's the best camera for video meetings?
With so many of us spending so many hours a day on video meetings, the age-old question "What kind of camera should I buy?" takes on a new urgency and meaning.
Sep 23, 2020
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Security
With painted faces, artists fight facial recognition tech
As night falls in London, Georgina Rowlands and Anna Hart start applying makeup. Instead of lipstick and eyeliner, they're covering their faces with geometric shapes.
Mar 8, 2020
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