Sony Patents a Faster Way for Cameras to Spot Moving Subjects
Every burst-shooting camera has to figure out which pixels moved between frames, and that calculation can slow things down. Sony's new patent…
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Samsung Patents a Corner Magnet Design to Keep Foldable Phones Sealed
Samsung's latest patent filing solves a surprisingly fiddly problem: how do you confirm that a foldable phone's internal seal is properly glued…
Samsung Patents a Cover Glass Trick That Kills Rainbow Patterns on Folding Screens
Every folding phone has a dirty secret: the crease zone can produce faint, shimmering rainbow bands when the display bends. Samsung's new…
Sony Patents a Dual-Camera Sensor That Skips Pixels It Doesn't Need to Read
Running two camera sensors simultaneously eats battery fast, but Sony's new patent describes a system where each sensor can simply skip the…
Google Patents a Display That Hides Antennas Inside the Screen Border
Google has filed a patent describing a display that uses the thin, non-pixel gap between two screen zones to hide antennas, then…
Samsung Patents a Spring-Loaded Gear Hinge for Its Foldable Phones
Samsung has filed a patent for a hinge mechanism that uses interlocking gears and a compressed spring to keep a foldable phone's…
Samsung Patent: Shrinking Video Color Data by Splitting Footage Into Segments
Samsung has filed a patent for a display technique that chops a video into pieces, compresses the color information in each piece,…
Samsung Patents a Display That Dims Based on How Hot Your Phone Gets
Your phone's screen is one of the biggest reasons it overheats, and Samsung is patenting a way to automatically dial back brightness…
Samsung Patents a Display Circuit That Feeds Each Color Pixel a Different Voltage
Most phone screens treat all their pixels equally at reset time, sending the same baseline voltage to red, green, and blue dots…
Samsung Patents a Stress-Absorbing Foam Layer for Foldable Phone Screens
The fold crease on foldable phones is one of the most persistent complaints about the category, and Samsung is looking at an…
Qualcomm Patents a Graphics Chip Trick That Skips Pixel Work When Unnecessary
Every frame your phone renders is a mountain of tiny color calculations. Qualcomm's new patent describes a way for the graphics chip…
Samsung Patents a Laser System for Placing Tiny LEDs on Curved Screens
Building a screen out of millions of microscopic LEDs is painstaking work, and placing them on anything other than a flat rectangle…
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