Samsung Files Patent for a Display That Senses Light Without Extra Sensors
Samsung Display is patenting a screen that doubles as a light sensor — embedding light-receiving elements directly into the panel and using…
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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 Per-Zone Refresh Rate Clock System for OLED Displays
Most variable refresh rate systems treat the whole screen the same — Samsung's new patent lets different parts of your display refresh…
Samsung Patents a Self-Grounding PCB Mount for Display Devices
Samsung has filed a patent for a display device where the circuit board grounds itself to the chassis the moment it's physically…
Sony Patents a Vertex-Pairing System to Fix 3D Mesh Encoding Seams
When you compress a 3D model by slicing it into patches, the edges where those patches meet can fall apart at decode…
Sony Patents a Tile-Based Hierarchical Map System for Real-Time 3D Streaming
Sony is patenting a system that breaks 3D scene data into tiles and resolution layers, streaming only the pieces your current viewpoint…
Sony Patents a Shared Logical Address System to Speed Up Console Boot Loading
Sony is patenting a way to make your console's secondary processor pre-load downloaded data in the background — using the exact same…
Apple Patents a Curve-Based Method for Generating HDR Gain Maps
Apple is filing patents around one of the quieter but genuinely tricky problems in modern photography: how do you let an HDR…
Nvidia Patents a System That Tracks Camera Aging Through Pixel Noise
Your camera might look fine from the outside, but its pixels are quietly getting noisier over time — and Nvidia wants to…
Samsung Patents a Wrapped FPCB Battery Connection for Foldable Phones
Getting a battery and a motherboard to talk to each other sounds trivial — until you're doing it inside a foldable phone…
Samsung Patents a Sampling-Grid Method for Pixel-Level Image Reconstruction
Samsung is patenting a way to rebuild images pixel-by-pixel using a grid that already knows where each reconstructed pixel should land —…
Samsung Patents a Clip-On Bracket That Mounts Your Phone Directly to a Monitor
Samsung is patenting a physical bracket that snaps onto the edge of a monitor frame and holds your phone in place —…
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Screen-Switching System for Tri-Fold Phones
Samsung is quietly figuring out one of the trickiest parts of tri-fold phones: what should happen to your screen when you partially…
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