Samsung Patents a Charging System That Pauses Individual Batteries to Cut Heat
Your phone running a game while plugged in is basically a hand-warmer. Samsung's new patent tries to fix that by intelligently pausing…
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Samsung Patents a Foldable Phone Display That Also Works as an Antenna
Samsung wants to stop wasting space on a dedicated antenna strip by turning a conductive layer already built into the flexible display…
Nvidia Patents an AI System for Auto-Routing Wires Inside Chip Designs
Designing the wiring inside a modern chip is one of the most tedious and error-prone steps in the entire semiconductor process. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a Faster Way to Check and Reshape Chip Circuit Drawings
Designing a modern computer chip means shuffling millions of tiny geometric shapes around a digital canvas, and making sure none of them…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Process Camera Frames Before They're Fully Captured
What if your car's computer didn't have to wait for a full camera frame before it started making sense of what it…
Samsung Patents a Pixel Design That Captures Fine Detail in Bright and Dark Scenes
Samsung has patented a pixel circuit that stacks three separate charge-storage stages inside a single camera sensor pixel, a design aimed at…
Samsung Patents a Screen Design That Makes Each Dot of Light Last Longer
Samsung Display has filed a patent describing a specific internal wiring layout for individual pixels in an OLED screen. It's deep inside…
Samsung Display Patents a Gate Driving Circuit That Feeds Signals Back Between Display Stages
Samsung Display has filed a patent for a gate driving circuit that links consecutive driver stages through a feedback capacitor, a design…
Samsung Patents Split-Screen Display Technology Designed for Artificial Intelligence Image Output
Samsung Display has patented a screen that can electrically divide itself into two separate halves the moment an AI feature kicks in,…
Samsung Display Patents a Screen Layer Design That Tunes Each Color Separately
Getting red, green, and blue light to all look equally bright and sharp on the same OLED panel is harder than it…
Samsung Patent Targets Sharper, More Precise Control Over How Pixels Light Up
Samsung Display has filed a patent for a display driver circuit that runs on two different voltage levels at once, using a…
Samsung Patents a Way to Charge One Device From Two Power Sources Simultaneously
What if your phone or laptop could pull power from two chargers at once and automatically split the load between them? That's…
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