Samsung Patents a Mid-Drag App-Switching Gesture for Touchscreens
Imagine dragging a photo with one finger and using another finger to navigate to the exact app you want to drop it…
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Samsung Patents a Dual-Screen System That Shows Different Apps on Each Display
Samsung is patenting a display setup where your phone and an external screen can each show a completely different app at the…
Samsung Patents a Photo Editing UI That Auto-Highlights What Actually Changed
Editing a photo is easy — figuring out what actually changed is the hard part. Samsung's new patent describes a system that…
Samsung Patents a Stroke-Intersection System for Auto-Correcting Handwriting Input
Handwriting on a touchscreen is messy — strokes overshoot, undershoot, and cross each other in ways that turn legible letters into garbage.…
Samsung Patents a Cross-Device Voice Activity Routing System
Samsung is patenting a way for two devices to listen together and decide which one should handle audio output — based on…
Red Hat Patents a System That Toggles OS Features Based on Energy Use
Red Hat wants Linux to know when it's running low on power — and automatically shut off OS components that aren't worth…
Adobe Patents a Gesture-Driven Unified Color-Control Interface for Image Editing
Adobe is patenting a color-editing interface that lets you tweak multiple color parameters simultaneously with a single gesture — and the histogram…
Sony Patents a Mid-Frame Cancellation System for Cloud Gaming Latency
Cloud gaming's dirtiest secret is that servers often finish rendering a frame your input already made obsolete. Sony's new patent tries to…
Sony Patents a Friend-Matching System Built Around When You Actually Play
Finding online friends who are actually online when you are is surprisingly hard. Sony's new patent tries to fix that by turning…
Salesforce Patents a Real-Time Sync System for Linked Virtual Workspaces
Salesforce is patenting a way to keep two separate virtual workspaces — think channels or rooms — automatically in sync, so a…
Samsung Patents a Priority-Based Display System for IoT Device Alerts
When a dozen smart home devices all trigger alerts at once, which one should your screen actually show? Samsung's new patent answers…
Red Hat Patents a Runtime-Built Alpha Network for Rule Engines
Rule engines typically lock in their decision-making structures at startup — Red Hat's new patent lets that structure build and reshape itself…
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