Qualcomm Patents a Display System That Prevents Screen Discoloration Based on Room Lighting
Burn-in, the ghost image that slowly gets baked into OLED screens, has been a persistent problem for phones and TVs alike. Qualcomm…
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Cell phone patents
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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Samsung Patents a Video Compression Method That Learns From Already-Decoded Frames
Every time your phone encodes a video, it has to make thousands of guesses about what the next block of pixels will…
Samsung Patents an Antenna System That Treats Both Halves of a Foldable Phone as One
When you fold a Samsung phone in half, the two halves end up facing each other, and that's normally a problem for…
Samsung Patents a Fix for the Visible Seams That Appear When Phones Process Photos in Pieces
When a phone's image processor works on a photo, it often chops it into smaller chunks called tiles. Done carelessly, that creates…
Google Patents a Variable Aperture That Controls Light in Phone Cameras
Google is working on a camera aperture mechanism that lets phones control how much light hits the sensor while taking up less…
New Sony Patent Pairs Game Controllers Through a Phone App First
Sony has filed a patent describing a new way to connect a game controller to a console, one where your phone does…
Samsung Patents Phone Design Where Cooling System Doubles as Speaker Channel
Samsung is exploring a way to make the metal component that cools your phone's processor do double duty as part of the…
Samsung Patent Syncs Haptic Feedback Across Multiple Devices During Video Playback
Imagine watching a sports clip on your phone and feeling each player's movement through a different device in the room. That's the…
Samsung Patents an Antenna Hidden Inside a Phone's Metal Frame
Samsung is patenting a way to turn part of a phone's metal side frame into an antenna, tucking the signal-carrying hardware into…
Samsung Patents a Dust-Blocking Hinge System for Foldable Phones
One of the most persistent complaints about foldable phones is that grit and dust work their way into the hinge over time.…
Qualcomm Patents a Camera Self-Calibration Method Using Cylindrical Image Wrapping
When a camera on a car or phone is even slightly tilted, every reading it feeds to a navigation or detection system…
Samsung Patents a Foldable Phone That Reads How Far You've Opened It Before Waking Up
Samsung is patenting a foldable phone that doesn't just wake up when you pick it up. It watches how far you unfold…
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