Sony Patents a Display That Lowers Its Own Scan Rate Zone by Zone to Save Power
Your display wastes energy refreshing pixels that haven't changed — Sony's new patent wants to fix that by treating each part of…
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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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Nvidia Patents a Faster Multistage Motion Search for Video Encoding
Video encoders spend a surprising amount of time just figuring out how pixels moved between frames — and Nvidia thinks it has…
Samsung Patents a Flexible Circuit Board Built for Foldable Phone Hinges
Every foldable phone has a dirty secret: the hinge is a nightmare for circuit designers. Samsung's latest patent takes a careful structural…
Samsung Patents Adaptive Touch Scanning That Ignores Screen Regions Your Palm Is Resting On
When you rest your palm on a tablet while writing with a stylus, the touch sensor is doing a lot of unnecessary…
Samsung Patents a Touch Electrode Layout That Places Gaps Near Connection Points
Samsung Display is rethinking where to put the empty spaces inside touchscreen electrodes — and the exact placement turns out to matter…
Samsung Display Patents a Touch Panel That Shares Its Middle Zone Between Two Drivers
Samsung Display is patenting a touchscreen architecture that lets two separate sensor drivers co-manage a shared middle region of the panel —…
Sony Patents a Dual-Pixel Sensor Design That Splits Brightness and Color Capture for Car Cameras
Most camera sensors make every pixel do double duty — capture both brightness and color at the same time. Sony's new patent…
Sony Patents a Wrap-Around Gate Design to Shrink Image Sensor Pixels Further
As image sensors get packed with more and more pixels, there's simply less room to fit the circuitry that actually reads them.…
Sony Patents a Two-Color Molded Light Guide for Cleaner LED Indicators
Sony's PlayStation hardware team has patented a clever single-piece component that both channels light from an LED and blocks it from leaking…
Sony Patents a Video Encoding Trick That Skips Redundant Color Transform Data
Sony is patenting a subtle but meaningful tweak to video encoding: skip writing transform type metadata entirely when any color channel is…
Intel Patents a Real-Time System for Scoring How Good Encoded Video Actually Looks
Encoding video fast is one thing — knowing whether the result actually looks good to a human eye, in real time, is…
Disney Patents a Motorized 3D Projection Surface That Pops Out on Cue
Disney is patenting a projection surface that physically unfurls on command — and then displays 3D visuals synced to a show, or…
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