Samsung Patented A Hologram Projecting Dock Accessory

Samsung has patented a hologram projecting dock accessory.

It's believed that the dock could be for the Galaxy S11, co-ordinate to a new written report. This too isn't the simply patent that'due south been discovered. The same written report also mentions a patent for a smartphone that comes with a camera under the screen.

This smartphone patent was granted back on Baronial 20 of this yr. In that patent, the examiner refers to a report that was covered in July of 2018, which focused on a design of a possible upcoming Samsung smartphone.

That phone featured an border to edge display and no visible front-facing camera. The design drawings on the patent also mimic the design in last year'southward report almost exactly.

The patented hologram dock is interactive

Judging by the drawings in the patent for the dock, Samsung envisions information technology existence interactive. Users can slot their Galaxy smartphone into the dock and have it project holographic details above the phone'southward display. Depending on the graphic, users are able to interact with it much in the way they might a bear on screen.

The patent drawings bear witness possible examples, similar pressing suspension or play buttons to manage music playback. Another instance is sharing content to with social media or other applications, or reading through incoming notifications. The GIF image below also depicts a possible visual of how this would look.

While information technology'southward important to call up this is just a patent that may never get anywhere, it'due south however an exciting prospect of Samsung's futurity products. The fact that Samsung patented a hologram projecting dock accessory at all is in and of itself a sort of wild thought, too.

But, it appears Samsung may think information technology isn't besides wild to continue from patenting information technology.

The dock would employ a "retro-reflection member" and "one-half mirror"

Samsung's patent refers to the applied science in the dock that would make this all work equally a "retro-reflection fellow member" and a "half mirror." This wouldn't exist the just tech comprising the dock, but certainly the bigger parts. According to the patent description, images output from the display panel would exist reflected by the half mirror.

The half mirror is also slightly slanted towards to the retro-reflection fellow member. So, when the display epitome is reflected past the half mirror it and then shows upward on the retro-reflection member which projects the image in the air.

Whether or non Samsung really implements this pattern in a futurity product is entirely uncertain, but the possibility is in that location.