New Patent Fights Fading Screen Colors by Measuring Live Pixels
OLED screens get dimmer and uneven over time as individual pixels wear out at different rates. Samsung's new patent describes a display…
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Display patents
Screens are Big Tech's favorite battleground: folding panels, pixel circuits, brightness tricks, and the seams where two displays meet. We read every display filing and translate it into plain English.
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Samsung Patents an Image Sensor With Different-Height Walls Between Pixels
The tiny walls between pixels on a camera sensor are usually the same height everywhere. Samsung's new patent argues they shouldn't be.
Microsoft Patents a Mechanical System That Keeps Foldable Screens From Creasing When You Fold Them
Folding a screen sounds simple, but the physics of bending a rigid display around a hinge without wrinkling or cracking it is…
Intel Patents a Display That Draws Less Power When Your Screen Is Dark
Your laptop uses roughly the same amount of power to show a pitch-black movie scene as it does a blazing white spreadsheet.…
Intel Patents a Battery-Saving Trick That Shrinks Your Screen's Active Area
When your laptop is running low on battery, Intel wants to shrink the active portion of your screen and power down the…
Sony Patent: Camera Uses AI to Select Which Scene Areas to Capture
Most camera sensors dutifully read every single pixel, every single frame, whether anything interesting is happening or not. Sony's new patent describes…
Qualcomm Patents a Display System That Corrects Pixels on the Fly
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a display processor that decides in real time whether to apply a pixel-correction filter, skipping it…
Samsung Patents a Three-Panel Foldable Phone That Bends at Two Points
Samsung is filing patents for a device that folds not once, but twice, using three separate panels that get progressively narrower as…
Samsung Patents a Camera Coating That Reduces Unwanted Light Bounce Between Colors
Samsung is patenting a new internal layer for image sensors that uses two zones of the same material, each bending light differently,…
Samsung Patents a System That Steers Sound Toward Your Busiest Screen
When you have three screens going at once, which one should be making noise? Samsung's latest patent answers that question automatically, by…
Samsung Patents a Screen Sensor Layout That Avoids the Display's Own Wiring
Hiding sensors behind a phone screen sounds simple, but the screen's own internal wiring can block or distort the signals those sensors…
Samsung Patents a Display That Switches to a Mirror When You Look at It
Samsung is patenting a screen that watches where you're standing and where your eyes are pointed, then decides on its own whether…
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