Sono, a noise-cancelling device that attaches to your window, has been shortlisted as a top-20 finalist for the 2013 James Dyson Awards. Similar in concept to noise-cancelling headphones, the device detects ambient sounds and actively emits a counter-signal to replace the noise with projected silence or even with another simulated sound like the chirping of […]
Sony continues to roll-out high-quality products utilising its wireless NFC bluetooth technology. Smartphones, regular mobile phones etc. can be paired with these wireless headphones to deliver great sound and great mobility.
Multiple devices (up to can be wirelessly paired with the headphones, and listening to the music on your device can be toggled between your headphones and the portable bluetooth SRS-BTX300 and SRS-BTX500 speakers we wrote about on January 18th.
The headphones feature …
If you’ve ever cussed out your DSLR because your still shots or video had excessive aliasing, jello and noise, you might be happy to hear about the new Coach16 imaging chip from CSR. The new addition to the ex-Zoran line of imaging processors is aimed at DSLRs and mirrorless cameras, and for the cinema set brings 1080/60p HD video with ‘super-resolution’ RGB downscaling to eliminate aliasing caused by line-skipping. Still shooters would get “endless sustained burst” high frame-rate capability, multi-frame noise reduction for improved low-light shooting, USB 3.0 support, high resolution EVF capability and smart flash. The latter feature cleverly takes two pictures rapidly with and without a flash, then marries the best parts HDR style for the final image. We won’t see any of that until it gets released in a new DSLR model, of course, but meanwhile, you can dream with the PR below the break.
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CSR outs new Coach16 processor for high-end cameras, aims to kill video jaggies, noise originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apple has just been hit with yet another patent-infringement lawsuit, this time by Noise Free Wireless, accusing Apple of violating its noise-canceling technology patents. Noise Free claimed that it had at one point revealed its noise-canceling technology to Apple in a series of meetings years ago, alleging that Apple went ahead and used the technology without permission.
Apple filed an application in 2010 for a “user-specific noise suppression for voice quality improvements” patent before the company decided to partner up with Audience over Noise Free for the supply of noise-canceling technology. “On further information and belief, Apple provided Audience with Noise Free’s confidential trade secret information to assist Audience in delivering a noise cancellation solution that was similar and/or identical to the solution that Noise Free designed,” Noise Free alleged in the suit.
In addition to patent infringement, Noise Free is suing Apple for trade secret theft and breach of contract, seeking “exemplary or punitive damages” for the misappropriation of its trade secrets. Noise Free has also requested the court to grant the company any of Apple’s patents that may come from Apple’s own patent application for noise-canceling technology. At this point, Apple has not yet commented on the lawsuit.
[via Apple Insider]
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Apple faces litigation claiming that it’s using patented technology all the time, often from small patent holding companies with dollar signs in their eyes. Noise Free Wireless has just filed a patent lawsuit against Apple whose allegations are considerably, well, louder. The firm maintains that it had been pitching its patented noise cancellation to Apple in periodic meetings between 2007 and 2010, only to watch as 1 Infinite Loop used Audience’s technology for the iPhone 4 instead — and supposedly handed some of Noise Free’s work to a competitor. An Apple patent filed the same year borrows some of that work, Noise Free insists, in addition to the iPhone in question. Neither side is talking about the details to outlets like Macworld, although we’d be cautious about accepting either company’s position at face value. However much Apple may protest its innocence regardless of circumstances, Noise Free certainly has a vested interest in retribution after losing out on such a big contract.
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Noise Free Wireless alleges Apple is tone deaf over sound reduction patent, files lawsuit to match originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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