Samsung plans to make a smartphone that could display holographic icons
Samsung has always been at the forefront of display technology. It was the first major smartphone manufacturer to use a Super AMOLED display and also the first smartphone vendor to use a dual curved display. Two months back, we also reported about ‘Project Valley‘, an upcoming smartphone from the company that might feature a foldable display.
Now, Patently Mobile has stumbled upon patent application from Samsun, which was filed with the USPTO pointing towards a smartphone with a display that can project hologram or holographic icons. The images filed in the patent application showcases a mobile phone display, a light guide member above it, and an entrance optical member.
As you can see in the images below, when the screen corresponding to the entrance optical member emits light, a holographic image is displayed above the light guide member. In simpler words, the display can project selected contents such as icons in a holographic manner for a true-to-life 3D experience.
This patent application was filed by the South Korean smartphone giant back in Q3 2014, but we can’t say for sure if Samsung will release such a smartphone in the near future. Can Samsung one day make smartphones and tablets with holographic displays that were showcased in the Avengers: Age Of Ultron movie? We certainly hope so!
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Beam Me Up Scotty? lol…. This is why Samsung has the largest screen manufacturing operations in the World. So BIG…. it’s called Display City!!! 😀 It’s why they are not only the perennially anointed #1 Smartphone Maker Every Year….. but the #1 Screen Maker, #1 CMOS Maker, #1 Memory Maker with the #1 fastest rated ARM processor with greatest energy efficiency on their ONE and ONLY 14nm FinFet SoC Fabrication Process and coming 10nm even beating Intel out the door on their CPU Only 10nm process! That’s why Samsung now merging with Samsung C&T and soon another of the over… Read more »
If Samsung brings this out + foldable displays than apple wil be nothing any more.
Unfortunately that is not true. Apple will just buy the display from Samsung the same way they bought millions of Samsung displays for their iPhones in the past.
Only Samsung has reserved the right to time releases of all new hardware now in development for themselves first. On things where they literally have no competition….. that may be never!!! 😀 This is the whole reason Samsung has been spending Billions more than every other smartphone parts and phone maker on both R&D and REAL CAPEX Spending! Unlike the purely iTrinket Design House Only….. Applewellian Brain Washed led and for Elitist Only iCon Game!!! Give us a break…. lol…. when Apple finally starts to spends some of that Scrooge McDuck bogus Cash Pile….. now getting loaded up with Debt… Read more »
is’nt this the thing the 11k screen was suppose to help with?
We STILL waiting for a foldable device. This will probably come out in 2169
oh no you have gone too far, 2169 is too much, even ur bones wouldn’t exist by that time
we are STILL waiting for 5.1.1
Only iDiots wait for each and every of iZillions of iOS updates a year. We just don’t need all those crap last generation features like Apple iZealots! lol…. if you do, then we all know you have nothing better to do with your life!!! ahahaha……. just like all the Applewellian Proles waiting for each bug fix that never works every few days or weeks or months!!! lol….. 😉
Yeah by then the United Federation of Planets is formed 😉
good for your grand children
Oh yeah about the time CrApple comes out with Edge Screens supplied by Samsung and better cameras and memory too. Also supplied by Samsung! 😀