Apple Patents a System That Keeps Two Screens Aligned by Watching You
Two monitors sitting next to each other on a desk sounds simple, but getting them to act like one continuous screen, adjusted…
342 filings · category
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.
Recent filings
342 total
Apple Patents a Fix for Washed-Out Colors That Appear Next to Extreme Highlights
When a screen shows dazzling HDR highlights next to regular content, the regular parts can look dull and grayish by comparison —…
Apple Patents a Camera Sensor That Captures More Light Without Washing Out the Image
Apple is patenting a way to squeeze more light information out of a single camera pixel — without the sensor ever getting…
Google Patents Technology That Stops Screens From Redrawing Parts That Have Not Changed
Every time your screen updates, your device can waste power redrawing pixels that haven't changed at all. Google's new patent describes a…
Microsoft Patents a Touch Screen That Cancels Its Own Interference for Cleaner Taps
Every touch screen has a dirty little secret: the display layer underneath the glass creates electrical interference that makes the touch sensor's…
Samsung Patents a Way to Monitor Multiple Screens Through the Video Signal Itself
Instead of running a separate cable or connection to check whether each screen in a multi-display wall is working properly, Samsung wants…
Samsung Files Patent for a Curved Display Assembly Method That Releases Its Own Adhesive
Building a curved display is genuinely hard — you have to hold everything perfectly still while bonding layers together, then let go…
Samsung Display Patents Screen Coating That Cuts Glare Without Leaving Fingerprint Smears
Glare on screens is one of those problems that sounds trivial until you're squinting at your phone outside on a sunny day.…
Samsung Patents a Screen That Reads the Room's Lighting Before Adjusting Its Color
Your phone's screen already dims in a dark room, but it can't tell whether the light around you is a warm incandescent…
Samsung Patents a Color Boost for Bright Screens That Keeps Hues Accurate
Boosting the color richness of HDR video sounds simple — but crank the saturation too far and skin tones turn orange, skies…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor That Replaces Curved Lenses with Nano-Scale Prisms
Samsung is designing an image sensor that ditches the tiny curved glass lenses sitting over your camera's pixels and replaces them with…
Samsung Patents a Display That Dims Itself Before It Overheats
Samsung is patenting a display that watches its own temperature in real time and quietly pulls back brightness before a screen module…
Get the weekly digest
One Big Tech patent every Sunday. Free.