Samsung Patents a Lookup-Table Filter That Cleans Up Compressed Video Frames
Every time a video is compressed, the image loses a little fidelity, and fixing those artifacts after the fact is harder than…
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Every time a video is compressed, the image loses a little fidelity, and fixing those artifacts after the fact is harder than…
Samsung is rethinking how camera pixels are physically separated from each other inside a sensor chip, using a design where groups of…
Every pixel on your phone screen is controlled by a tiny circuit, and Samsung has filed a patent that changes how the…
Sony is working on an image sensor that can do arithmetic on its own, before any data ever leaves the chip. The…
Your smartwatch lights up constantly for nothing. Google is patenting a system that figures out what you're doing first, then decides whether…
Every VR and AR headset has to constantly fix its own image distortion in real time. Qualcomm wants to hand that job…
Samsung Display has filed a patent for a screen power system that can flip between positive and negative voltage rails depending on…
Most of the video content you watch was made before HDR screens existed, and it shows. Samsung is patenting a way to…
Most image-quality improvements in PC graphics require developers to change their games. Nvidia's new patent describes a way for the driver itself…
Processing video in real time is one of the hardest jobs a chip can do. Intel's new patent describes a way to…
Every time a screen blows up a lower-resolution image to fill more pixels, it has to invent detail that wasn't there. Apple's…
Folding devices live or die by their hinge, and Microsoft is filing patents on a mechanism designed to keep both halves of…
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