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…
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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…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Stops Updating Your Watch When Its Screen Goes Dark
When you're listening to music through earbuds and your smartwatch screen is off, why should your phone keep sending playback updates to…
Qualcomm Patents Zoom-Aware Rectification for Stereo Camera Pairs
When you zoom in on a dual-camera phone, the stereo math that powers depth sensing quietly breaks — Qualcomm's new patent is…
Qualcomm Patents GPS-Assisted Motion Estimation for 3D Point Cloud Compression
Compressing 3D LiDAR data is brutally hard — the scene changes every millisecond and every point in space needs to move with…
Sony Patents a Thermal Throttle for In-Car Cabin Monitoring Cameras
A car parked in the summer sun can turn into an oven — and that's a real problem for the cameras and…
Sony Patents a Cost-Volume System for High-Accuracy ToF Depth Estimation
Time-of-Flight sensors are fast but fuzzy — they trade spatial resolution for speed. Sony's new patent describes a way to squeeze much…
Sony Patents a Multi-Camera System That Shows Every Camera's Shooting Range at Once
Managing a dozen cameras at a live event means constantly guessing what each one is covering. Sony's new patent describes a system…
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