IBM Patents a Storage System That Routes Data to the Right Hardware Automatically
IBM has filed a patent for a storage system that reads metadata attached to incoming data and automatically sends it to whichever…
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Samsung Patents a Camera Design That Folds Light to Slim Down Zoom Lenses
Getting a powerful zoom lens into a thin smartphone requires some optical gymnastics. Samsung's latest patent defines the exact geometric rules for…
Samsung Patents a Rail System to Keep Sliding Flexible Displays on Track
Flexible-screen phones that slide or roll sound great until the display starts to wobble or bind. Samsung's latest patent describes a precise…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Captures Bright and Dark Scenes Simultaneously
Taking a single photo in tricky lighting usually means choosing between a bright shot that blows out highlights or a dark one…
Samsung Patents a Charging System That Pauses Individual Batteries to Cut Heat
Your phone running a game while plugged in is basically a hand-warmer. Samsung's new patent tries to fix that by intelligently pausing…
Samsung Patents a Foldable Phone Display That Also Works as an Antenna
Samsung wants to stop wasting space on a dedicated antenna strip by turning a conductive layer already built into the flexible display…
Nvidia Patents an AI System for Auto-Routing Wires Inside Chip Designs
Designing the wiring inside a modern chip is one of the most tedious and error-prone steps in the entire semiconductor process. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a Faster Way to Check and Reshape Chip Circuit Drawings
Designing a modern computer chip means shuffling millions of tiny geometric shapes around a digital canvas, and making sure none of them…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Process Camera Frames Before They're Fully Captured
What if your car's computer didn't have to wait for a full camera frame before it started making sense of what it…
Samsung Patents a Pixel Design That Captures Fine Detail in Bright and Dark Scenes
Samsung has patented a pixel circuit that stacks three separate charge-storage stages inside a single camera sensor pixel, a design aimed at…
Samsung Patents a Screen Design That Makes Each Dot of Light Last Longer
Samsung Display has filed a patent describing a specific internal wiring layout for individual pixels in an OLED screen. It's deep inside…
Samsung Display Patents a Gate Driving Circuit That Feeds Signals Back Between Display Stages
Samsung Display has filed a patent for a gate driving circuit that links consecutive driver stages through a feedback capacitor, a design…
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