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Nintendo gets sued over 3DS technology

Ninty’s hot under the collar with a lawsuit centred around that magical screen

Dan Grabham Dan Grabham

A Japanese company – Tomita Technologies – has filed a lawsuit against Nintendo, which it alleges infringed its patent for a “stereoscopic image picking up and display system based upon optical axes cross-point information.” That’s glasses-free 3D to you and us.

The patent (submitted in 2003) mentioned the technology could be used as a glasses-free method of 3D in which images are directed to each eye separately. There’s no word from Ninty as of yet, but we bet they’ve got a whole room full of top-class lawyers ready to strike out plenty of damage in court. No doubt they’ll be hoping for a plethora of legal-1ups when the dust has cleared.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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