Nvidia Patents Reusable Shortcuts That Speed Up How 3D Scenes Are Lit
Building a 3D scene in real time is expensive work, and a big chunk of that cost comes from organizing geometry before…
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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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Apple Patents a Noise-Reducing Touch Screen Layout for Crisper Input Detection
Touch screens are constantly fighting electrical interference from their own components. Apple's latest patent describes a reworked electrode layout that physically cancels…
Samsung Patents Technology That Trims Phone Battery Drain by Slowing Unused Screen Sections
Your phone's screen doesn't redraw everything at the same speed all the time, and Samsung wants to get much more surgical about…
Samsung's New Patent Solves the Antenna Problem Inside a Phone That Folds Twice
Fold a phone in thirds and you've got a new problem nobody talks about: where do you put the antenna when the…
Sony's New Patent Gives Game Characters Skin That Actually Absorbs Light
Human skin doesn't just reflect light off its surface, it lets some light in, bounces it around beneath the skin, and sends…
Samsung Patents a Fix for the Weak Spot Where Phone Screens Crack at the Cable
Flexible screens are only as good as the fragile ribbon cables connecting them to the rest of the phone. Samsung Display is…
Samsung Display Patents a Pixel Design That Separates Brightness from Light Output
Samsung Display has patented a pixel circuit design that adds a dedicated transistor to control exactly when each pixel connects its brightness-setting…
Samsung's New Patent Tries to Shrink the Black Border Around Phone Screens
Samsung Display has filed a patent describing a new way to arrange the internal wiring strips that sit at the edge of…
Samsung's New Patent Stops Its Screen Pixels and Light Sensors from Tripping Over Each Other
Cramming light sensors directly into a display panel sounds simple, but the pixels and sensors end up fighting over the same timing…
Samsung Patents a Way to Fit More Light Into Each Camera Pixel
Every smartphone camera pixel needs its own set of transistors to read out light, and those transistors eat up space that could…
Samsung's New Patent Makes Every Corner of a Touchscreen Respond at the Same Speed
The farther a touch signal has to travel inside your screen, the more likely it is to arrive late or distorted. Samsung's…
Google's New Patent Hides the Tap-to-Pay Antenna Inside a Foldable Phone's Frame
Google is working on a way to hide the NFC coil that powers tap-to-pay inside the metal frame of a foldable phone,…
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