Exactly: the speed is simply not relevant. If I patent the mechanism for a coining press, the speed at which it operates is irrelevant to whether a particular press implements that patent or not. Similarly, if there's a patent on bounce-back, how quickly or slowly the pixels are drawn is irrelevant to whether the patented process is occurring.

The only way to get around that would be for Apple's patent to not be on bounce-back itself, but on specific display hardware implementing it (that would be the part that allows it to operate faster than a human could). In which case none of Samsung's phones would infringe because they wouldn't contain Apple's hardware.

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