Latest hardware patents, Page 190
Chips, displays, cameras, phones, batteries and robots. These filings show what devices Big Tech is building, often long before they ship. The hardware patent applications we have broken down from the companies we track, from semiconductors to foldable screens, newest first.
- in the Nov 12 release
- 48
- in November so far
- 102
- filings tracked
- 2,316
- sub-topics
- 13
Recent filings
Newest first · 2,316 total-
Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Per-Zone RGB Backlight System for Color-Blind Viewers
Most color-blindness accessibility features work by remapping colors in software. Samsung's new patent goes a layer deeper — tweaking the actual electrical current fed to individual red, green, and blue LEDs behind each zone of the screen.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Conductive Bracket That Grounds Antenna Modules Internally
Samsung's latest patent describes a structural bracket that doesn't just hold an antenna module in place — it also serves as the electrical ground connection, combining two jobs into one compact piece of metal.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Camera-Driven Auto Keystone Correction System for Projectors
If you've ever pointed a projector at a wall from an angle and gotten a trapezoid instead of a rectangle, you know the keystone problem. Samsung's new patent describes a system that fixes that automatically — no manual slider required.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Cam-Driven Sliding Hinge for Foldable Phones
Samsung's latest patent describes a foldable phone hinge that physically pushes a small slider outward the moment you fold the device — using the rotation of the fold itself as the driving force.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Dual-Space Neural Network for Robot Path Planning
Most robot navigation systems struggle when obstacles cluster in awkward configurations. Samsung's new patent takes a geometric detour — literally — by solving navigation in a transformed mathematical space before snapping the answer back to the real world.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Dual-Pixel Architecture for High Dynamic Range Image Sensors
Samsung is patenting an image sensor layout that uses two fundamentally different pixel types side by side — one tuned for sensitivity, the other for handling bright light without blowing out. It's a hardware-level approach to the dynamic range problem that every smartphone camera struggles with.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Widening Sound Channel Built Into the Phone Frame
Samsung is engineering the path sound takes through a phone's structural frame itself — using a tapered channel that widens as it approaches the speaker grille to push audio outward more efficiently.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Multi-Processor Display System That Adjusts Brightness Without Waking the Main Chip
Every time your phone adjusts screen brightness, it risks nudging a power-hungry processor out of sleep. Samsung's new patent tries to fix that by routing the whole job through smaller, lower-power chips.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Pixel-Level Sensing Circuit for Sharper OLED Displays
Samsung Display has filed a patent for a sensing circuit built directly into each pixel that can read back how the display element is actually performing — a step toward more accurate real-time compensation in OLED panels.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Display That Switches Screen Regions Between Mirror and Image Mode
Samsung is patenting a way to let users draw a box on their screen and have it behave like a mirror — or switch it back to a normal display — based on where you are, what you're doing, and how bright the room is.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Spiral-Driven Hinge Mechanism for Foldable Phones
The hinge is the most mechanically stressed part of any foldable phone — and Samsung is quietly rethinking how it works from the inside out, using interlocking spiral structures to control the fold motion.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Dual-Node Image Sensor with Built-In Gain Control
Samsung is patenting a smarter way to read out light from a camera sensor — one that lets each pixel group independently tune how it handles bright and dark signals at the hardware level.
