Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Stops Excess Light From Blurring Distance Measurements
Bright light is the enemy of depth sensors. Samsung's new patent tackles a specific failure mode where too much incoming light floods…
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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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Samsung Patent Merges Touch Sensors Directly Into Display Power Supply Layer
Samsung Display is patenting a screen construction where touch-sensing electrodes share the same physical layer as the electrodes that power the pixels…
Samsung Patents a System That Picks What Your Foldable's Inner Screen Shows When You Open It
When you open a foldable phone, should the app on the cover screen jump to the big inner display automatically, or wait…
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…
Samsung Patents a Camera Design That Separates Pixels Unevenly to Boost Low-Light Shots
Samsung is rethinking how camera pixels are physically separated from each other inside a sensor chip, using a design where groups of…
Samsung Patent Targets Sub-Pixel Layout to Reduce Interference and Sharpen Displays
Every pixel on your phone screen is controlled by a tiny circuit, and Samsung has filed a patent that changes how the…
Sony Patent Embeds Math Into Image Sensors to Shrink AI Cameras
Sony is working on an image sensor that can do arithmetic on its own, before any data ever leaves the chip. The…
Google Patent Teaches Wearables to Wake Up Only at the Right Moment
Your smartwatch lights up constantly for nothing. Google is patenting a system that figures out what you're doing first, then decides whether…
Qualcomm Patents a Dedicated Engine for Fixing Distorted Images in XR Displays
Every VR and AR headset has to constantly fix its own image distortion in real time. Qualcomm wants to hand that job…
Samsung Display Patents Screen Power Control That Adjusts Brightness Per Individual Pixel
Samsung Display has filed a patent for a screen power system that can flip between positive and negative voltage rails depending on…
Samsung Patent: Making Flat, Dull Video Look Richer and More Lifelike on Modern Screens
Most of the video content you watch was made before HDR screens existed, and it shows. Samsung is patenting a way to…
Nvidia Patents Software That Rewrites Its Own Picture-Enhancing Rules for Every Scene
Most image-quality improvements in PC graphics require developers to change their games. Nvidia's new patent describes a way for the driver itself…
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