Samsung Files Patent for an Always-On Screen That Dims Itself to Match the Room
Samsung has filed a patent application for an always-on screen that checks the light around it, then shifts every color by the…
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Sony Patents a Touchscreen That Treats a Hovering Finger as Part of the Gesture
On most touchscreens, the instant your finger leaves the glass, the device stops paying attention. Sony's filing says the second right after…
Qualcomm Patents a Method to Play Video Without Waking the Main Chip
Every time a video frame is ready, a device's main processor usually has to wake up and tell the screen hardware how…
Samsung Patents a Fix for Jagged Lines on Screens That Show 3D Without Glasses
Glasses-free 3D screens have a quirk: straight lines can look broken, and thin white lines can split into red, green and blue…
Samsung Patents a Smartwatch Screen That Checks Blood Pressure Through Your Finger and Wrist
Your smartwatch screen could take a second pulse reading through your fingertip while the back of the watch reads your wrist. Samsung…
A New Samsung Patent Folds a Smart Ring's Antenna Down Over Its Radio Chip
Samsung's answer to a cramped smart ring is to fold part of the circuit board over on itself, like closing a flap,…
Samsung Patents Speakers That Retune Themselves as You Fold Your Phone
Every time you fold or half-fold your phone, the speakers end up in a completely different acoustic situation. Samsung has filed a…
Disney Patents a Dual-Laser System for Producing Intense, Eye-Safe Projection Light
Disney has filed a patent for a light source that combines two banks of lasers with a phosphor panel to generate extremely…
Samsung Patents a Foldable Display Design That Shrinks the Border and Seals the Edges
Samsung is filing patents on foldable screens that do two things at once: push the visible border nearly to zero and use…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor That Splits Focusing and Color Into Separate Pixel Groups
Samsung has filed a patent for a camera sensor that handles autofocus and color capture in dedicated, electrically separated pixel groups on…
Nvidia Patents a Parallel Processing Approach for 360-Degree Image Math
Processing a 360-degree image requires a lot of repeated math on a lot of pixels. Nvidia's new patent describes splitting that work…
Samsung Patents a Fix to Stop Colors Washing Into Each Other on OLED Screens
A precise ratio buried in a display patent could be the difference between crisp colors and a muddy mess in tiny OLED…
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