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Samsung patents chip logic that boosts speed for screen updates

Samsung describes a method for its processors to identify when an app is preparing to show an image on the screen. When this happens, the system switches that task to a faster, high-power core to ensure smooth visuals, while keeping other background tasks on slower, energy-saving cores.

Why it mattersThis technique could help phones and tablets display graphics more smoothly without draining the battery as quickly by only using maximum power when the screen actually needs it.

In the filing’s own words

This electronic device may include: a display; a processor including a first core operating in a first frequency range, and a second core operating in a second frequency range having a second maximum frequency lower than a first maximum frequency of the first frequency range; and a memory storing instructions and including one or more storage media. The electronic device may identify a request for a first process among at least one process of an application. The electronic device may change a core for processing the first process to the first core among the first core and the second core on the basis of the process indicated by the request being related to a second process for outputting an image to the display. The electronic device may maintain the core for processing the first process on the basis of the process being related to a third process distinguished from the second process.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device, comprising: a display, a processor including a first core running in a first frequency range, and a second core running in a second frequency range having a maximum frequency less than a maximum frequency of the first frequency range, and memory storing instructions, which when executed, cause the electronic device to: identify a request of a first process of an application, based on a process indicated by the request being related to a process for outputting an image to the display, allocate the first process to the first core for processing, and based on the process indicated by the request being related to a process other than a process for outputting an image to the display, maintain a core currently allocated to the first process as the core for processing the first process.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IDENTIFYING PROCESS FOR RENDERING
Publication number
US20260288535A1
Application number
19683538
Filed
May 20, 2026
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

G06F 9/5066 Physics & computingG06F 2209/5021 Physics & computingG06F 2209/505 Physics & computing
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