Samsung Patents a Display That Balances Brightness Across Mixed Refresh-Rate Zones
When part of your screen is showing a video and the rest is showing a static calendar widget, they're running at very…
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Samsung Patents a Gesture-Based Fallback for Unresponsive Smart Home Controllers
What happens when your smart home controller goes offline mid-use? Samsung is patenting a camera-based gesture system that steps in automatically —…
Samsung Patents Object-Aware Ambient Lighting for Its Displays
Samsung is patenting a TV that doesn't just glow — it figures out what's on screen, where specific objects are sitting in…
Samsung Patents a Storage Device That Trains AI Models Internally
Instead of shipping raw data from storage to a CPU or GPU for AI model training, Samsung's patent proposes letting the storage…
Samsung Patents a Touch-Correction System for Under-Display Camera Screens
Under-display cameras create a messy problem for touchscreens: the same cutouts that let light through to the camera also distort touch signals.…
Meta Patents AR Glasses That Watch What You're Doing and Coach You in Real Time
Meta is patenting a system where your AR glasses watch what you're doing — using their outward-facing camera — and layer real-time…
Microsoft Patents an LLM-Driven Threat Hunting Tool Built Around a Tree Interface
Security investigations are notoriously nonlinear — you chase a lead, it goes cold, and you have to backtrack. Microsoft's new patent describes…
Microsoft Files Patent for AI-Generated URLs That Help Search Engines Find Hidden Content
Most search engines can only find pages they've already seen. Microsoft is patenting a system that asks an AI to guess what…
Waymo Patents an LLM System That Predicts What Self-Driving Cars Will See Next
Waymo is patenting a system that makes its self-driving car describe what it sees in plain text — then uses those text…
Samsung Patents a Ring Wearable That Reads Your Health and Your Finger Gestures at Once
Samsung is designing a ring-shaped wearable where the display panel itself does double duty — firing light inward to read your pulse…
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