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DivX Sues TCL over Streaming Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say DivX is suing TCL over its use of patents via the US ITC. The case is over a 43″ Class-4 series 4K UHD HDR ‘Smart’ Google-based units and the way it …

Tags:Divx| Litigation| Patents| TCL

Apple Wins US Lenticular Display Patent

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Patently Apple reported that the USPTO has awarded a patent to the Cupertino company that allows the use of a display with lenticular lenses to show different content to different users. …

Tags:Autostereo 3D| Lenses| Optics| Patents

Sony Files for Foveated Rendering Patents

by Bob Raikes

What They Say UploadVR reported that Sony has applied for a patent to cover ‘Eye Tracking To Adjust Region-Of-Interest (ROI) For Compressing Images For Transmission’. Foveated rendering is explicitly mentioned later in the document. …

Tags:Gaze Recognition| Patents| PlayStation| Virtual Reality

iPhone Fold could be one step closer to reality

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Phone Arena spotted a patent (“Electronic devices with fiber composite friction hinges”). Most of the rest of the article is speculation and quotes from the the patent application. What We Think …

Tags:Apple| Flexible Displays| Foldable Devices| Patents

LG Display Renews its Patent Licence Agreement with SEL

by Milos Pavlovic

What They Say The Korea Times said that LG Display has revealed that has renewed a patent license contract with Semiconductor Energy Laboratory (SEL), the Japanese research organisation. SEL has patents in OLEDs, LCDs …

Tags:IGZO| Patents| TFT

Links Week Commencing 11th October 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Sony to join TSMC on new $7bn …

Tags:Dolby Vision| Financial Data| Google| LG Electronics (LGE)| OLED TVs| Patents| Semiconductors| sharp| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| sony

Links Week Commencing 27th September 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. A School District Successfully Implements Boxlight ProColor …

Tags:Amazon| audio| Education| Eizo| Google| GPUs| Huawei| Interactive Displays| OLED TVs| Patents| Pricing| Retail| Skyworth| Smartphones| TCL| Vestel

TCL Enters into MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License

by Artem Alekseenko

MPEG LA announced that TCL Electronics Holdings Limited (“TCL”) has become a Licensee to MPEG LA’s AVC Patent Portfolio License (“AVC License”). As a result of this agreement, all legal disputes related to patent …

Tags:Licensing| MPEG| MPEG4 (H.264 AVC)| Patents| TCL

Facebook has Acquired Daqri’s AR Patent Portfolio

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Protocol newsletter reported that Facebook has acquired the patent portfolio from the failed Daqri venture. (Behind the Daqri Failure) The rights were initially sold to RPX Corp which sold them on …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Patents

Valve Wins Patents Including Eye Tracking

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Information’s Reality Check pointed out that Valve Corp has won a number of patents recently and highlighted one that covers tracking. What We Think Reality Check had trouble with a …

Tags:Patents| Virtual Reality