Latest hardware patents, Page 192
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
Newest first · 2,316 total-
Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Display That Balances Brightness Across Mixed Refresh-Rate Zones
When part of your screen is showing a video and the rest is showing a static calendar widget, they're running at very different refresh rates — and that mismatch quietly causes brightness differences you might not notice consciously but your eyes definitely do. Samsung's new patent is specifically about fixing that.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Gesture-Based Fallback for Unresponsive Smart Home Controllers
What happens when your smart home controller goes offline mid-use? Samsung is patenting a camera-based gesture system that steps in automatically — so you can still control a device even when its normal interface has failed.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents Object-Aware Ambient Lighting for Its Displays
Samsung is patenting a TV that doesn't just glow — it figures out what's on screen, where specific objects are sitting in the frame, and fires the right color from the right light at the bottom of the display to match.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Touch-Correction System for Under-Display Camera Screens
Under-display cameras create a messy problem for touchscreens: the same cutouts that let light through to the camera also distort touch signals. Samsung's new patent tackles that distortion head-on with a correction layer baked into the touch-sensing pipeline.
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Samsung · Published May 21
Samsung Patents a Ring Wearable That Reads Your Health and Your Finger Gestures at Once
Samsung is designing a ring-shaped wearable where the display panel itself does double duty — firing light inward to read your pulse and outward to track finger gestures. One ring, two entirely different sensing jobs, handled by a single curved panel.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a Layer-Wise Method to Compress Vision-Language Models
Training a powerful vision-language model takes enormous compute — but deploying one on a robot, a car, or a modest GPU is a different story. Nvidia's new patent describes a structured way to compress those large models down to size without gutting their capabilities.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a System That Spots Duplicate 3D Objects and Collapses Them Into One
Imagine a virtual city with ten thousand trees — most of them nearly identical. Nvidia's new patent describes a way to automatically detect those near-duplicates and make the GPU render just one of them, reused everywhere it appears.
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Nvidia · Published May 21
Nvidia Patents a System That Teaches Robots to Learn From Every Failure
Every time a robot gets stuck and a human has to step in, that intervention is usually lost data — a missed learning moment. Nvidia's new patent tries to capture every one of those moments and turn them into fuel for automatic retraining.
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Google · Published May 21
Google Patents an Automated Camera Quality Scoring and Correction System
Google has filed a patent for a system that automatically grades individual aspects of a camera image — sharpness, exposure, color balance, and more — converts them into numerical scores, and triggers corrections the moment any score dips below a set threshold.
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Qualcomm · Published May 14
Qualcomm Patents a Video Noise Filter That Knows When to Leave the Picture Alone
Most video noise filters run all the time, blurring fine detail even in clean footage. Qualcomm's new patent describes a system smart enough to measure how noisy a frame actually is — and only engage the heavy-duty filtering when it's genuinely needed.
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Qualcomm · Published May 14
Qualcomm's New Patent Cleans Up the Seams Between Video Decoding Tiles
When your phone decodes a video, it quietly slices each frame into processing tiles — and the seams between those tiles can introduce subtle visual artifacts. Qualcomm's latest patent targets exactly that seam problem, with a more careful filtering approach that knows which pixels to trust and which to skip.
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Qualcomm · Published May 14
Qualcomm Patents a Video Decoder That Stops Waiting for Data to Arrive in Order
Qualcomm's latest patent targets a surprisingly mundane but costly problem in video decoding: processor cores sitting idle while waiting for the 'right' data to arrive in the 'right' order. The fix is letting the decoder skip ahead and work on whatever data shows up first.
