Samsung Patents a Wearable That Syncs Device Vibrations to an Expanding Visual Ripple
Imagine tapping your smartwatch and feeling a nearby phone buzz at exactly the moment an animated ripple visually 'hits' it on screen.…
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Imagine tapping your smartwatch and feeling a nearby phone buzz at exactly the moment an animated ripple visually 'hits' it on screen.…
Two photodiodes sit under a single tiny lens, but one of them can amplify its signal twice before sending it out —…
Screens with under-display cameras have a dirty secret: the area above the camera uses a sparser pixel grid, and that mismatch can…
The hidden edge of a rollable phone screen is one of its most vulnerable spots — it's tucked inside the device, moves…
If you've ever plugged a second monitor into your PC and spent twenty minutes tweaking brightness and color temperature to make it…
When a video decoder chops a frame into processing tiles, the math it uses to decode the edges of each tile can…
Samsung Display is trying to solve one of mmWave 5G's messiest hardware problems — where to put the antennas — by building…
Samsung Display is patenting a system that listens to the vibrations of factory machines and matches those patterns against a library of…
When a game runs at 90fps but your screen refreshes at 120Hz, something has to give — and Qualcomm thinks analyzing color…
Your foldable phone held flat on a desk behaves very differently than one propped up at a 120-degree angle — and Qualcomm…
Your display wastes energy refreshing pixels that haven't changed — Sony's new patent wants to fix that by treating each part of…
Video encoders spend a surprising amount of time just figuring out how pixels moved between frames — and Nvidia thinks it has…
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