LG suspects Samsung of patent infringement on eye-tracking technology in Galaxy S 4 smartphone

Samsung's Galaxy S 4 has not even gone on sale, as it has already caused the company to suspect a possible patent infringement. According to a report by the largest Korean news agency Yonhap News, LG suspects that the Galaxy S 4 may infringe on the patent for eye-tracking technology (which allows you to track the movement of a person’s gaze) used in LG’s Optimus G Pro smartphone.

At the heart of this skirmish is the Smart Pause function (the smartphone stops the video when the user looks away from the screen, whether it will turn on again if the view returns to the screen is unknown) by Samsung, which LG finds similar to its Smart Video technology. As it turned out, LG received a patent for this technology back in 2009, although the company also plans to investigate whether Samsung violated other patents for eye-tracking technology related to 2005.

So far, of course, Samsung has denied its guilt, saying that eye-tracking in their case is implemented differently and is based on its own patented technology. Given that the phone has not yet gone on sale, LG will conduct its examination before blaming Samsung in court.



Original text of the article:www.engadget.com/2013/03/19/lg-suspects-samsung-of-infringing-its-eye-tracking-patents-in-galaxy-s-4