Samsung Patents a Home Robot That Can Read and Control Your Screens
Samsung is patenting a robot that doesn't just wander around your home — it can look at a TV, phone, or other…
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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 a Display That Renders Only Where Your Eyes Are Looking
Your eyes can only focus sharply on a small patch of whatever you're looking at — everything else is peripheral blur. Samsung…
Samsung Patents a Way to Hide the Seams in See-Through Displays
Transparent LED screens are already appearing in store windows and architecture — but the one thing that gives them away is the…
Samsung Patents a Display That Draws Its Own Cursor Instead of Waiting for One
Most screens are dumb — they show whatever a connected device sends them. Samsung's new patent flips that: the display itself draws…
Qualcomm Patents a Chip Shortcut That Skips Drawing Blank Screen Regions
Qualcomm's latest patent describes a way for a phone's graphics chip to check how much of a screen region actually needs drawing…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Lock Video Frames in Sync Across Two Separate Screens
Ever watched a video split across two screens and noticed one side is ever-so-slightly ahead of the other? Qualcomm has filed a…
Qualcomm Patents a Touchscreen That Scans Your Finger Faster Than the Rest of the Screen
Your phone's touchscreen scans its entire surface at the same rate, whether your finger is moving or not. Qualcomm wants to change…
Sony Patents a Dual-Sensitivity Camera Sensor That Captures Bright and Dark Detail at Once
One of the hardest problems in photography is capturing a scene where some parts are blinding-bright and others are nearly pitch-dark —…
Sony Patents a 3D Display That Works Harder Where Your Eyes Actually Are
Sony is patenting a way to make glasses-free 3D displays cheaper to run — by doing the heavy computing only where the…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Switches Power Levels to Control Light Capture
Sony has filed a patent for a solid-state image sensor that can switch between two different operating voltages — a design that…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Combines Two Light Captures Before Saving a Photo
Sony's latest patent describes an image sensor that quietly blends two separate pixel readings together inside the chip itself — before the…
Sony Patents an Image Processor That Ignores the Parts of a Picture It Doesn’t Need
Most image processors crunch every pixel in a frame, whether it's relevant or not. Sony's new patent describes a chip that skips…
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