Samsung Patents a Circuit That Bypasses a Failing Battery Cell Mid-Use
Imagine your laptop's battery pack has four cells and one goes bad. Right now, that often means the whole pack underperforms or…
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Samsung Files Patent to Detect Skin Tone Using Pulse Sensor Technology
Most wearable health sensors were designed and tested primarily on lighter skin tones, which makes their readings less reliable for many people.…
Samsung Patents a Lost-Device Finder That Points You There With Your Camera
Samsung is working on a way to find a lost gadget by pointing your phone's camera around the room until an on-screen…
Samsung Patents Technology That Cuts Interference for Cleaner Heart Rate Readings
Samsung Display is patenting a way to make optical sensors more accurate by pairing a close-range sensor with a far-range one, then…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Reframes Your Shot When Someone Walks In
You're photographing one person, a second friend walks into frame, and your phone zooms out and reframes the shot to include both.…
Samsung Patents a Selective Data-Sync Check for Multi-Node Computing Systems
When dozens of computing nodes share and modify the same data, constantly double-checking every write operation wastes time and processing power. Samsung's…
Samsung Display Patents a Way to Read Touch Input With Fewer Wires Inside a Screen
Getting a touchscreen to know exactly where your finger is requires a dense web of wiring inside the panel. Samsung Display is…
Samsung Patents a Projector That Drives Itself Around a Room and Fixes Its Own Picture
Forget fighting with a projector's angle and focus. Samsung is patenting a device that rolls to the right spot in a room…
Samsung Patents a LiDAR Chip That Mixes Its Own Laser Light to Sharpen Distance Readings
Samsung is patenting a new way to build LiDAR sensors, where each individual pixel on the sensor chip handles its own laser-mixing…
Samsung Patents a Projector That Drives Itself to Your Location and Sets Up Automatically
Imagine calling your projector the way you'd call an elevator, and having it roll over, aim itself, and start playing the right…
Samsung Patents an AI System That Spots Defects in Chip Factory Rail Tracks
Inside Samsung's chip factories, small robotic carriers shuttle wafers along ceiling-mounted rail tracks for hours on end. A new patent describes an…
Samsung Patents a Faster Way to Test Memory Chip Connections Before Building Them
Before a memory chip ever gets soldered onto a circuit board, engineers have to simulate thousands of electrical interactions to make sure…
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