Sony's New Patent Stacks a Camera Chip in Three Layers to Sharpen Every Shot
Sony is filing patents on a way to build image sensors from separate stacked layers, each handling a different part of the…
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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…
Samsung's New Patent Stops AI Memory Chips from Cracking During Assembly
Samsung has patented a memory chip stack with a specially shaped cap layer designed to keep the whole structure from cracking or…
Samsung's New Patent Reads Body Fat From Two Points on Your Skin at Once
Most fitness wearables give you a single number for body composition. Samsung's new patent describes a device that takes two different electrical…
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,…
Apple Patents a Two-Layer Glass Treatment to Make iPhone Screens Tougher
Apple is working on a new way to toughen the glass cover on its devices by stacking two different chemical treatments into…
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