Samsung Patents a Camera That Reads Motion Before You Tap the Shutter
Most cameras react to motion blur after the fact — Samsung's new patent wants to detect motion in the viewfinder and dial…
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Samsung Patents a System That Auto-Matches Colors Across Multiple Monitors
If you've ever plugged a second monitor into your PC and spent twenty minutes tweaking brightness and color temperature to make it…
Samsung Patents a Way to Sync Garbage Collection Across Multiple SSDs
Every SSD periodically stops to do housekeeping — and when multiple drives do it at different times, your system stutters unpredictably. Samsung's…
Samsung Patents a Fix for Probability Drift at Video Tile Boundaries
When a video decoder chops a frame into processing tiles, the math it uses to decode the edges of each tile can…
Samsung Patents a Diode-Driven Optical Switch for Steering Light
Samsung is patenting a way to steer light on a chip using a diode — the same basic building block that controls…
Samsung Patents a Template-Matching System for More Efficient Video Decoding
Samsung is patenting a way to make video decoders smarter about how they find matching image blocks — a small but potentially…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Pre-Focuses Before You See the Viewfinder
Samsung is patenting a way to have your phone's camera already focused on your subject before the camera app has even finished…
Samsung Patents a Layer-by-Layer 3D Escape Route Finder for Robots
When a robot rolls into a crowded hallway, it doesn't just need to know what's blocking the floor — it needs to…
Samsung Patents a Display Panel With a 5G Antenna Array Built Into Its Edge
Samsung Display is trying to solve one of mmWave 5G's messiest hardware problems — where to put the antennas — by building…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Level Battery Short Circuit Detection System
A short circuit inside a phone or laptop battery doesn't always announce itself dramatically — it can smolder quietly for a long…
Samsung Display Patents a Vibration-Pattern System for Catching Factory Equipment Failures Early
Samsung Display is patenting a system that listens to the vibrations of factory machines and matches those patterns against a library of…
IBM Patents a Chip Stack That Combines Fast DRAM and Flash Storage
IBM is patenting a memory architecture that physically stacks fast DRAM chips together with NAND flash storage in a single package —…
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