Samsung Patents a Dual-Mode Display That Embeds Sensors Between Its Pixel Layers
Samsung's new display patent describes a panel that can run in two distinct modes — one using all its pixels, one using…
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Samsung Patents a Foldable Cover Display That Reads Content From Its Own Case
Samsung is patenting a foldable phone that detects when you snap on a case — then pulls content data directly from that…
Samsung Patents a Wearable That Dials Down Radio Power During Music Playback
Your wireless earbuds are constantly juggling two jobs at once — playing music and maintaining a radio link. Samsung's new patent is…
Samsung Patents a Way to Merge Dual-Camera Footage Into One Video Track
Samsung is patenting a method to take footage from two separate cameras and pack it into a single video track — potentially…
Samsung Patents a LUT-Driven Ray Tracing Denoiser for Real-Time Rendering
Samsung is rethinking how to clean up noisy ray-traced images — not by running a full neural network at render time, but…
Samsung Display Patents an Optical Control Module for Anti-Reflection Screens
Samsung Display is patenting a multi-layer optical system designed to cut down on reflections in display panels — the kind of annoying…
Samsung Patents a Single-Substrate Growth Method for Full-Color Micro LED Displays
One of the biggest manufacturing headaches in micro LED display tech is growing red, green, and blue pixels separately and then assembling…
Samsung Patents a Robot Vacuum That Physically Moves Obstacles to Clean Beneath Them
Most robot vacuums politely drive around shoes, bags, and pet bowls — Samsung's new patent describes a robot that just moves them…
Samsung Patents an Auto-Focusing Liquid Crystal Lens Assembly for Wearables
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable lens system that can physically move *and* electronically change its focus — using a…
Samsung Patents a Pocket-Detection System for Foldable Phones
Samsung is filing patents to solve one of the most mundane-but-maddening problems with foldable phones: the screen you can still see on…
IBM Patents a Co-Packaged Optical Module for High-Density Chip Interconnects
As AI clusters demand ever-faster chip-to-chip links, IBM is patenting a way to embed optical hardware directly inside a chip package —…
Qualcomm Patents a Context-Aware Screen Time Monitor That Weighs Your Environment
Your phone already tracks how long you stare at a screen — but Qualcomm is filing patents for a system that also…
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