Samsung Patents a Spiral-Driven Hinge Mechanism for Foldable Phones
The hinge is the most mechanically stressed part of any foldable phone — and Samsung is quietly rethinking how it works from…
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Samsung Patents a Dual-Node Image Sensor with Built-In Gain Control
Samsung is patenting a smarter way to read out light from a camera sensor — one that lets each pixel group independently…
Samsung Patents a Folded-Mirror Optical System for Ultra-Short-Throw Projection
Samsung is filing patents on a compact projector optical system that folds light through a single solid glass element — bouncing it…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Directional Gate Layout for Denser Image Sensors
Samsung is patenting a way to wire up image sensor pixels using gate lines that snake across two differently-oriented active regions —…
Samsung Patents a System for Sending 3D Video to the Right Screen in Multi-Display Setups
Most people have more than one screen on their desk — but only one of those screens might support 3D. Samsung's new…
Samsung Patents a Single-Signal Driver IC for Multi-Column LED Backlights
Samsung is trying to do more with less inside the backlight of an LCD display — specifically, driving two full columns of…
Samsung Patents a Crease-Swipe Screenshot Gesture for Tri-Fold Phones
Samsung is working on a tri-fold phone with a genuinely clever trick: swipe your finger along the physical crease between display panels…
Samsung Patents a Chip Package That Buries Passive Components Inside Camera Modules
Samsung is patenting a way to hide the small resistors and capacitors that normally crowd a circuit board inside the chip package…
Samsung Patents a Precision Grid Structure for Next-Gen Image Sensors
Samsung is quietly filing patents on the microscopic scaffolding that sits between your camera's color filters — and the geometry of that…
Samsung Patents a Polarization-Based Focal Plane Array for LiDAR Sensors
Samsung is rethinking how LiDAR sensors send and receive light — by using a clever polarization trick to keep outgoing laser pulses…
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor with Asymmetric Sub-Pixel Doping Layers
Samsung's latest patent describes an image sensor where neighboring sub-pixels deliberately use different doping concentrations — a subtle but potentially significant tweak…
Samsung Patents a Runtime System That Calibrates Camera Noise While You Shoot
Most camera noise reduction is baked in at the factory. Samsung's new patent describes a system that figures out your sensor's unique…
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