Samsung Patents a Camera Design That Captures More Detail in Low Light
Samsung has filed a patent for a specific internal arrangement of image sensor pixels, detailing how four tiny sub-pixels are grouped, separated,…
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Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Stops Excess Light From Blurring Distance Measurements
Bright light is the enemy of depth sensors. Samsung's new patent tackles a specific failure mode where too much incoming light floods…
Samsung Patents a Projector That Knows If It's Pointing at a Wall or Floor
Samsung is patenting a projector that figures out whether it's aimed at a wall or a floor, then automatically switches certain sensors…
Samsung Patent Merges Touch Sensors Directly Into Display Power Supply Layer
Samsung Display is patenting a screen construction where touch-sensing electrodes share the same physical layer as the electrodes that power the pixels…
Samsung Patents a System That Picks What Your Foldable's Inner Screen Shows When You Open It
When you open a foldable phone, should the app on the cover screen jump to the big inner display automatically, or wait…
Samsung Patents a Lookup-Table Filter That Cleans Up Compressed Video Frames
Every time a video is compressed, the image loses a little fidelity, and fixing those artifacts after the fact is harder than…
Google Patents a Way to Connect Devices by Pointing Your Phone at Them
Imagine aiming your phone at a TV like a TV remote and having your phone instantly connect to it. That's the core…
Qualcomm Patents a Memory Chip That Picks Its Own AI Math Precision
What if your phone's memory could run AI calculations directly inside itself, and automatically dial up or down the math precision to…
Samsung Patents a Camera Design That Separates Pixels Unevenly to Boost Low-Light Shots
Samsung is rethinking how camera pixels are physically separated from each other inside a sensor chip, using a design where groups of…
Qualcomm Patents a System for Tracking Visual Features Across Camera Frames
Knowing where an object was in one camera frame is useful. Knowing where it will appear in the next frame, before you…
Samsung Patent Targets Sub-Pixel Layout to Reduce Interference and Sharpen Displays
Every pixel on your phone screen is controlled by a tiny circuit, and Samsung has filed a patent that changes how the…
Intel Patents a Processor That Speeds Up AI by Simplifying Its Math
Intel is patenting a chip design that shrinks the numbers used in AI math down to just one or two bits each,…
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