Google's New Patent Stops Always-On Screens from Burning In
Always-on displays are useful, but leaving the same pixels lit for hours causes uneven wear and burn-in. Google's new patent tackles that…
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.
Always-on displays are useful, but leaving the same pixels lit for hours causes uneven wear and burn-in. Google's new patent tackles that…
Apple is working on a way to let you control your devices — or other nearby devices — simply by moving them…
Apple has filed a patent for a video encoding trick that splits image blocks diagonally into triangles, letting a single index in…
Real-time 3D graphics has a persistent headache: recycle too much lighting data from the last frame and the scene looks laggy when…
Every time a camera chip tweaks a pixel to look better — adjusting for infrared light, for example — it quietly makes…
Tesla is patenting a way to make dashboard panels look like blank, unmarked surfaces — until a backlight switches on and reveals…
When a chip processes an image in chunks, the edges of each chunk are a headache — every chunk needs to peek…
Deep inside every display panel, millions of tiny transistors need to be wired up without creating electrical interference — and Samsung has…
Running a display factory means juggling overhead rail carriers, ground-level robots, and conveyor systems that often can't talk to each other. Samsung…
If you've ever set up two monitors side by side and noticed the video on one screen is a split-second behind the…
Every phone maker wants a true full-screen display with no notch or hole-punch — but hiding a camera behind a screen without…
Ever noticed a faint color halo or fringe around objects on a screen? That's often a color-alignment problem — and Samsung just…
We read every patent application Big Tech publishes and send you the ones worth knowing. Plain English, free, every week.