Samsung Patents a Two-Step Touch Detection Method to Improve Touchscreen Accuracy
Touchscreens have a signal-interference problem that gets worse as displays get bigger and more electrodes are packed in. Samsung's new patent describes…
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Samsung Patents a Projector That Responds to Your Hand Gestures
Point at a screen, wave your hand, and watch related content appear on the nearest empty wall. That's the core idea behind…
Samsung Patents a Flexible Display That Wraps All the Way Around Your Wrist
Most smartwatch screens stop at the face. Samsung is patenting a design where the display keeps going, wrapping across both straps and…
Sony Patents a Camera Sensor That Reduces Processing Delays in Image Capture
Getting pixel data off a camera sensor fast enough, without errors, is a surprisingly hard engineering problem. Sony's new patent describes a…
Sony Patents a Camera That Adjusts Its Own Light Capture on the Fly
Cameras have long struggled to capture bright sunlight and deep shadows in the same frame. Sony's latest patent describes a sensor that…
Sony Patents a Pixel Circuit That Fires the Instant Light Changes
Most camera sensors wait until they've captured a full frame before telling you what changed. Sony's new patent describes a pixel that…
Sony Patents Technology That Reduces Pixel Color Data Before Saving Video Files
Sony is exploring a way to shrink video files by reducing color precision on individual pixels before compression even starts, using a…
Samsung Patents a Way to Cut Always-On Display Power Without Dimming the Screen
Always-On Display is one of those features people love until they notice how fast it drains the battery. Samsung's new patent targets…
Samsung Patents a Privacy Screen Filter That Fades Out Instead of Cutting Off
Samsung is working on a privacy screen that doesn't just slam a dark curtain over sensitive content. Instead, it softens the blocked…
Samsung Patents a Display That Captures HDR Photos Without a Camera Cutout
Samsung is working on a screen that can take high-dynamic-range photos without any visible camera hole, by hiding light-sensing pixels directly inside…
Intel Patents a GPU Memory System That Fetches Only the Texture Tiles a Scene Actually Needs
Every ray-traced frame asks a GPU to pull in enormous amounts of texture data, most of which never actually appears on screen.…
Samsung Patents a Stepwise Power-Down System for Display Chips
Every time your phone's screen sits still, its display chip keeps running at full tilt -- wasting power. Samsung's new patent describes…
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