Latest hardware patents, Page 191
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
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Recent filings
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Folded-Mirror Optical System for Ultra-Short-Throw Projection
Samsung is filing patents on a compact projector optical system that folds light through a single solid glass element — bouncing it off two internal mirrors before it ever reaches your wall. The goal: a shorter, more precise optical path without needing a long lens barrel.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Multi-Directional Gate Layout for Denser Image Sensors
Samsung is patenting a way to wire up image sensor pixels using gate lines that snake across two differently-oriented active regions — a structural tweak that could help pack more pixels or more capable transistors into the same chip area.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a System for Sending 3D Video to the Right Screen in Multi-Display Setups
Most people have more than one screen on their desk — but only one of those screens might support 3D. Samsung's new patent tackles the surprisingly tricky problem of making sure 3D content only goes where it can actually be shown properly.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Single-Signal Driver IC for Multi-Column LED Backlights
Samsung is trying to do more with less inside the backlight of an LCD display — specifically, driving two full columns of LED pixel ICs using a single source signal instead of one per column. It's a wiring-efficiency bet hiding inside a dry hardware patent.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Crease-Swipe Screenshot Gesture for Tri-Fold Phones
Samsung is working on a tri-fold phone with a genuinely clever trick: swipe your finger along the physical crease between display panels and the device captures a screenshot. It's a gesture that turns an engineering constraint — the fold line — into a UI shortcut.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Chip Package That Buries Passive Components Inside Camera Modules
Samsung is patenting a way to hide the small resistors and capacitors that normally crowd a circuit board inside the chip package itself — a packaging trick that could shave precious millimeters off camera module height.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Precision Grid Structure for Next-Gen Image Sensors
Samsung is quietly filing patents on the microscopic scaffolding that sits between your camera's color filters — and the geometry of that scaffolding has a surprisingly big effect on image quality.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Polarization-Based Focal Plane Array for LiDAR Sensors
Samsung is rethinking how LiDAR sensors send and receive light — by using a clever polarization trick to keep outgoing laser pulses and incoming reflections from interfering with each other on the same chip.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents an Image Sensor with Asymmetric Sub-Pixel Doping Layers
Samsung's latest patent describes an image sensor where neighboring sub-pixels deliberately use different doping concentrations — a subtle but potentially significant tweak to how light-to-signal conversion is tuned at the silicon level.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Runtime System That Calibrates Camera Noise While You Shoot
Most camera noise reduction is baked in at the factory. Samsung's new patent describes a system that figures out your sensor's unique noise fingerprint in real time — while you're actively recording video.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents an On-Board Image Conversion Circuit for Display Output
Samsung is patenting a compact electronic apparatus that takes an incoming video signal, converts it on-board using a dedicated circuit, and pushes a clean output to a display — all within a single, neatly organized substrate.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a System That Pauses Voice Filters Mid-Call Automatically
Samsung is patenting a voice-processing system that can apply audio filters to your voice during a phone call — and then automatically stop applying them the moment conditions shift, without you touching a thing.
