Qualcomm Patents a Color-Tuning System That Focuses Only on What You're Looking At
Most phones boost color across an entire photo, making the background pop just as much as the face you actually care about.…
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Filings where the phone itself is the target: folding bodies, antennas hidden in the frame, cameras, charging, and screens built for pockets. Most also appear under their component type; this page gathers everything phone-bound in one place.
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Qualcomm Patents a Way to Save Your Phone's State When the Battery Is Pulled
Most phones today have sealed batteries, but Qualcomm is solving a problem for the ones that don't: what happens to everything you…
Samsung Patents a Two-Device System for Cleaner Call Audio
Your earbuds already try to scrub out background noise, but Samsung thinks your phone should be doing half that job too. A…
Samsung Patents Technology to Switch Earbuds Between Phones Without Resetting Them
Every time you try to pair a set of earbuds with a new phone, there's a decent chance you're about to spend…
Samsung Patents a Way to Decrypt Data Inside the Memory Chip Itself
Every time your phone reads protected data from memory, that data has to travel across a bus and get decrypted before it…
Samsung Patents a Folded Zoom Camera Design That Captures Sharper Distant Shots
Getting a powerful zoom camera into a phone thin enough to pocket means bending light sideways and stacking precisely shaped lenses in…
Qualcomm Patents Technology That Keeps Rotating Graphics Sharp During On-Screen Animations
Every frame on your phone screen is really a stack of overlapping layers, and Qualcomm thinks the chip doing the rendering can…
Qualcomm Patents Tech That Lets Users Choose How Their Phone Reads Photos
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a device that lets users choose, at runtime, which image-analysis engine processes a video stream. That…
Samsung Patents a Speaker System That Rebalances Audio When Your Screen Slides Out
When a phone screen slides or rolls out to get bigger, the speakers that were perfectly placed for a compact device suddenly…
Qualcomm Patents a Low-Power Sleep Mode for the Memory Inside Your Chips
Your phone's processor is packed with tiny memory banks that burn power even when they're sitting idle. Qualcomm's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a Flexible Screen Support That Prevents Cracking Along the Fold
Foldable phones bend in the middle, but the middle is also where they break first. Samsung's latest patent targets exactly that weak…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Loads the Next Filter While the Current Image Renders
Every time your phone processes a photo or video frame, the chip has to fetch the math instructions it needs before it…
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