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Patent Landscape · Under Display Sensors and CameraUnder display camera and sensor patents: who is actually filing, and what claim space is still open
- One assignee dominates the ranking. the leader holds 31 records against a fifth-place count of just 4, in a ranking of 9 companies total.
- Filing peaked in 2022 at 32 records, then fell toward zero in the most recent, still-incomplete years — read that drop as publication lag, not a real slowdown.
- OLED and display-control classes dominate the claims, H10K and G09G each cover roughly two-fifths of the 46 records, while optics classes G02B and G02F sit under 5% each.
46
Published Records
US
Leading Jurisdiction
9
Active Filers Ranked
2022
Peak Filing Year
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Overview
What this patent set covers
This landscape tracks 46 published records matched on under-display camera and sensor terminology together with the specific technical problems that make the approach hard: diffraction artefacts, transmittance loss in the camera region, image restoration, fingerprint sensing beneath the panel, pixel layout redesign, and display uniformity. The scope spans 2015 through the 2026 data cut-off, though the most recent filing years are understated because publication typically lags filing by around 18 months.
Most of the activity sits at the intersection of display fabrication and image processing rather than in pure optics: the dominant IPC classes are organic semiconductor display structures and display control circuitry, with pictorial-communication and telephony classes showing where the camera and handset makers enter the same claim space.
Filing activity by year, 2015–2026
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee ranking and totals. Derived from a Patsnap search on Under Display Sensors and Camera covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
The Numbers
Filing trend and technology composition
Two views of the same 46-record set: when the filings landed, and which IPC subclasses they were built on.
Filing activity, 2017–2026
Filings climbed to a peak of 32 records in 2022 before tapering toward the 2026 cut-off. Growth rate is not stated here because fewer than four complete years remain once publication lag is factored in — treat the recent-year decline as an artefact of that lag, not evidence the field has cooled.
IPC subclass composition (share of 46 records)
H10K (organic semiconductor displays) and G09G (display control circuits) each appear on more than a third of records, confirming that most claims are anchored in panel structure and drive electronics rather than in the camera module itself. G06T (image processing) and the two optics classes, G02B and G02F, each cover under 9% of records — a sign that image-restoration and pure-optics approaches are comparatively lightly claimed against panel-side fixes.
Shares are the percentage of the 46 records in scope. A patent can carry several IPC classes, so the shares add up to more than 100%.
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Filing trend and technology composition. Derived from a Patsnap search on Under Display Sensors and Camera covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.
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Representative filing and most-cited records
Representative Filing
Reducing effects of light diffraction in under display camera (UDC) systems — Samsung Electronics (2025-04-03)
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD
The method captures paired image frames under two related diffraction patterns, deblurs each independently, then combines the two deblurred outputs by exploiting the fact that each pattern produces complementary, differently-shaped artefacts. The result is a restoration approach that does not depend on a single fixed diffraction model.US20250113097A1 — full claim language rendered separately.
Most-cited records in this set
| # | Publication no. | Patent title | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CN111833747A | 阵列基板、显示面板及电子设备 | 7 |
| 2 | US20240397762A1 | Display Substrate and Display Apparatus | 5 |
| 3 | US20240389382A1 | Display Substrate and Display Device | 3 |
| 4 | US20240381712A1 | Display Substrate and Display Apparatus | 3 |
| 5 | US20240119914A1 | Display panel and method for manufacturing same, and display device | 2 |
| 6 | CN115955880A | 显示面板和显示装置 | 1 |
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What the data means for a filing decision
Three read-throughs from the trend, the citation cluster and the class composition.
Concentration
31 vs. 4
leader vs. fifth place
One company set the pace; the rest filed defensively
The ranked leader holds 31 of the records in a 9-company ranking, with a sharp drop to 4 at fifth place. That gap suggests most other filers are protecting adjacent process or handset integration points rather than contesting the core panel architecture.
9 companies ranked
Citation cluster
7 citations
top-cited record
Display-substrate structure, not optics, draws the most citations
The most-cited records in this set are display substrate and panel structure filings, not image-processing or optics claims. Later filers appear to be building on panel layout solutions more than on restoration algorithms.
Based on the five most-cited records in scope
Filing timing
2022 peak
32 records
Activity is front-loaded before the cut-off window narrows
Filings rose to 32 records in 2022 and have since tapered toward zero by 2026. Given the roughly 18-month publication lag, the true 2024-2026 filing level is understated in this chart, not necessarily lower.
Peak year: 2022
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Source: Patsnap Eureka. Co-assignee relationships and derived observations. Derived from a Patsnap search on Under Display Sensors and Camera covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
Players
Who is filing, and where the gate sits
The ranking is short and top-heavy, with one filer's family group anchoring most of the recorded activity.
Leader
31 records
of the ranked total
A single filer group anchors the field
The leading assignee and its closely linked corporate entities account for the bulk of filings in this set, including the strongest co-assignee pairing recorded (27 shared records between two related entities), pointing to one integrated group covering panel fabrication and display electronics together.
Ranking covers 9 companies
Momentum
-100% YoY
leading filers, latest year
Recent-year momentum reads flat across the board
Every assignee tracked shows zero filings in the latest year, with the top two showing -100% year-on-year. This is consistent with publication lag rather than a genuine stop in R&D activity.
Momentum reflects publication lag, not necessarily reduced R&D
Entrants
4 at fifth place
long tail begins early
Handset and chipset makers sit outside the panel-maker cluster
Beyond the dominant panel-maker group, a mobile chipset company and a handset OEM appear in the ranking, marking where camera-and-processor integration claims enter alongside display-structure claims.
9 companies ranked in total
Recent-year momentum by assignee
| Assignee | Recent year | YoY |
|---|---|---|
| BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd. | 0 | -100% |
| Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. | 0 | -100% |
| Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. | 0 | — |
| Qualcomm Incorporated | 0 | — |
| Chongqing BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd. | 0 | — |
| Beijing BOE Display Technology Co., Ltd. | 0 | — |
| Yungu (Gu'an) Technology Co., Ltd. | 0 | — |
Source: Patsnap Eureka. Assignee-level momentum. Derived from a Patsnap search on Under Display Sensors and Camera covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
What's Next
Where to take this next
The class and citation data point to specific next steps rather than a single conclusion.
Check freedom-to-operate against the panel-structure cluster
Because H10K and G09G together anchor the densest claim space, any new filing on panel-side fixes should be checked against the leading filer's family group before drafting.
Run a freedom-to-operate checkMap the image-restoration branch separately
G06T and the optics classes are comparatively thin in this set, which may mean either genuine white space or that restoration claims are filed under different search terms worth a follow-up query.
Expand the search scopeTrack the handset-side entrants
The chipset and OEM filers outside the core panel-maker cluster are worth monitoring for where camera-and-processor integration claims might move next.
Monitor assignee activitySource: Patsnap Eureka. Forward-looking reading of the same dataset. Derived from a Patsnap search on Under Display Sensors and Camera covering 2015–2026, data cut-off 2026-07-31. Counts reflect published records only and shift as new filings publish.Run this in Eureka MCP
FAQ
Common questions on under display camera patents
In this dataset, a record qualifies if it combines under-display camera or sensor terminology with a specific technical problem such as diffraction artefacts, reduced transmittance in the camera region, image restoration, fingerprint sensing beneath the panel, pixel layout redesign, or display uniformity. This means the set excludes general smartphone camera patents that do not address the under-panel placement problem specifically. It also captures both display-fabrication filings and image-processing filings, because both are needed to make the technique work in a shipped product.
One assignee group leads the ranking with 31 records, well ahead of the fifth-place company at 4, in a ranking that covers 9 companies total. The strongest co-assignee pairing in the data, at 27 shared records, sits between two closely related entities within that same group, suggesting a single corporate family covering both panel fabrication and display electronics. Beyond that leader, filing activity is comparatively thin and spread across a mobile chipset company, a handset OEM, and several other display makers.
The trend data shows filings rising to a peak of 32 records in 2022, then declining toward the 2026 cut-off. That decline should not be read as a slowdown in research: publication typically lags filing by around 18 months, so the 2024-2026 figures in this set understate actual filing activity during those years. A genuine growth rate cannot be stated from this data because fewer than four complete years remain once that lag is accounted for.
The two largest IPC classes in this set, H10K (organic semiconductor displays) and G09G (display control circuits), together cover well over a third of all 46 records each, showing that most claims focus on redesigning the panel structure and its drive electronics around the camera region rather than on the camera optics themselves. Image processing (G06T) and pure optics (G02B, G02F) each account for under 9% of records, which points to comparatively lighter claim coverage on the restoration-algorithm side of the problem.
The class composition suggests real-time image restoration algorithms and pure optical-stack solutions are less densely claimed than panel-structure fixes, since G06T, G02B and G02F each sit under 9% of the 46 records in scope while H10K and G09G each exceed a third. Fingerprint sensing under the active display area and diffraction-aware pixel layout also show comparatively few citations relative to the top-cited display-substrate records. Anyone drafting in these adjacent branches should still run a full freedom-to-operate search, since low density in this dataset does not rule out coverage filed under different terminology.
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