Samsung Patents a Luminance Waveform Method for Detecting Display Failures
Spotting a broken pixel or a light-bleed defect on a display panel sounds simple — until you're doing it at factory scale…
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Samsung Patents a System for Setting Device Automations With Voice and Gestures
Imagine pointing at your TV and saying 'turn this off when I leave the room' — and having your phone just figure…
Samsung Patents a Signalling Traffic Monitoring Control System for 5G Networks
Network operators spend enormous effort trying to figure out why signaling traffic spikes — this Samsung patent describes a structured, on-demand system…
Samsung Display Patents a Glass-Etching Method for Flexible OLED Screens
Building a foldable screen means the rigid glass underneath has to get out of the way — and Samsung Display has patented…
Samsung Patents an AI Assistant That Chains Multi-Domain Tasks in One Request
Ask your phone to find out how long it takes to get somewhere and automatically set an alarm for arrival — that's…
Samsung Display Patents an Under-Panel Light Sensing Stack for Screens
Samsung Display is patenting a way to weave light-sensing elements directly into the dark gaps between pixels — no separate sensor cutout…
Samsung Patents a Display Panel That Senses Its Own Deformation
Samsung is exploring a way to embed touch and pressure sensing directly into the structure of an OLED display — not as…
Samsung Patents a Pinch-to-Shrink Widget Layout System for Cover Displays
Samsung is patenting a way to let you pinch an active widget down to a smaller tile on a cover display —…
Samsung Patents a New Contact Pad Layout for 3D Memory Wordlines
As 3D NAND flash stacks more and more memory layers on top of each other, the tiny metal contact pads that connect…
Samsung Files Patent for Selective-Protection Semiconductor Etching Process
Deep inside a chip factory, the difference between a working transistor and a dead one can come down to a single masking…
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