Qualcomm Patents a Lower-Power AI Video Filter for Mobile Chips
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a way to run AI-powered video cleanup on a phone chip without draining the battery, by…
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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 Safer Way for Chargers to Detect Connected Devices
Every time you plug a phone into a charger, the charger has to figure out something is there. Samsung's new patent focuses…
Apple Patents a Ceramic Cover Layer for Foldable Phone Screens
Ceramic is famously hard and brittle, the opposite of what you want in a phone that folds in half. Apple is working…
Samsung Patents a Fix That Stops Background Tasks From Making Screens Stutter
Every time your TV or phone freezes mid-animation, there's a good chance a background process is hogging a resource the display needs.…
Samsung Patents a Hinge That Keeps Both Foldable Screens Crease-Free and Aligned
Folding a phone sounds simple, but getting two separate display panels to bend without creasing or buckling requires a hinge that does…
Apple Patents a Way to Figure Out Which Way Your Device Is Pointing Using Sound
Your phone already has two microphones. Apple thinks those microphones can tell the phone which direction it's facing, no compass required.
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Render Different Parts of a Photo at Different Resolutions
Most phone cameras treat every pixel in a frame the same way. Qualcomm's new patent describes a chip-level trick that lets different…
Samsung Patents a Phone That Slides Open to Reveal a Bigger Screen
Samsung is working on a phone where the screen physically slides out to become larger, and the device's protective trim pieces are…
Google Patents a Way to Keep Both Earbuds in Sync on a Single Audio Stream
Google's latest patent describes a counterintuitive fix for wireless earbuds: deliberately lying to your phone about whether audio arrived, so both earbuds…
Google Patents an AI System That Adjusts Chip Power Based on What You're Doing
Every chip inside your phone is constantly doing more work than it needs to, because it can't tell the difference between a…
Samsung Patents a Phone That Adjusts Nearby Speakers Based on How Far Away You Are
Samsung is working on a phone that doesn't just connect to a wireless speaker, it measures how far away that speaker is…
Samsung Patents a System That Recalibrates Your Phone's Altitude Sensor After You Drop It
Drop your phone and the barometric pressure sensor inside it can shift out of calibration feeding bad altitude data to every app…
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