Samsung Patent Merges Curved Solar Cells and Display Pixels in Ring Device
Samsung Display has patented a wearable display shaped like a ring or cylinder that charges itself using a curved solar panel tucked…
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Samsung Patents a System That Passes Your Voice Commands to a More Capable Nearby Device
Your earbuds are paired to your phone, but you just asked something your phone can't handle. Samsung's new patent describes a system…
Samsung Patents a Night-Vision Chip That Reads Heat to Capture Images in the Dark
Samsung is patenting a thermal image sensor with a deliberately perforated absorption layer, a structural tweak designed to improve how accurately the…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Blends Old Photos With Live Shots
Samsung is patenting a way for your phone camera to blend a photo already sitting in your gallery with a brand-new live…
Samsung Patents a Camera Mode That Adjusts Exposure Based on How Much Your Pet Is Moving
Getting a sharp photo of a pet is genuinely hard, and Samsung thinks the fix is letting the camera watch how much…
Samsung Patents a Circuit That Bypasses a Failing Battery Cell Mid-Use
Imagine your laptop's battery pack has four cells and one goes bad. Right now, that often means the whole pack underperforms or…
Samsung Files Patent to Detect Skin Tone Using Pulse Sensor Technology
Most wearable health sensors were designed and tested primarily on lighter skin tones, which makes their readings less reliable for many people.…
Samsung Patents a Lost-Device Finder That Points You There With Your Camera
Samsung is working on a way to find a lost gadget by pointing your phone's camera around the room until an on-screen…
Samsung Patents Technology That Cuts Interference for Cleaner Heart Rate Readings
Samsung Display is patenting a way to make optical sensors more accurate by pairing a close-range sensor with a far-range one, then…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Reframes Your Shot When Someone Walks In
You're photographing one person, a second friend walks into frame, and your phone zooms out and reframes the shot to include both.…
Samsung Patents a Selective Data-Sync Check for Multi-Node Computing Systems
When dozens of computing nodes share and modify the same data, constantly double-checking every write operation wastes time and processing power. Samsung's…
Samsung Display Patents a Way to Read Touch Input With Fewer Wires Inside a Screen
Getting a touchscreen to know exactly where your finger is requires a dense web of wiring inside the panel. Samsung Display is…
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