Samsung Patents a Phone With a Transparent   Screen



We are in the field of patents , so we should not be sure that some of these designs will become a reality in the future, although some have. For example, the first models of folding mobile phones that we saw in subtle sketches and that have already become phones for sale.


Patents serve, this yes, to know in what direction the research and development departments of manufacturers are moving, and what the latest arrival tells us is that Samsung is devising a mobile phone with a transparent screen . What happens is that the paper supports everything and the diagram shows a completely transparent phone, something that should not be possible.




As we have said, patents are used to find out what direction manufacturers are taking, and it seems that Samsung has a team dedicated to investigating transparent screens. Something similar has been developed to hide the cameras behind the screens themselves , using a series of translucent layers and algorithms to reconstruct the photograph taken by a partially hidden lens, but Samsung goes further.


Although the patent was published last August, it was presented at the beginning of this same 2020, which means that Samsung has already been working on the tests for its new transparent device for some time. A mobile phone, apparently with Android on board, which would place it in the Galaxy family, and whose designs clearly show that we are talking about total or almost total transparency .



The patent explains the different layers necessary to achieve a completely usable screen from the point of view of displaying graphics and all kinds of moving images, but which can be kept transparent to a greater or lesser extent. What is not explained is what solution would be sought to make the inside of the phone disappear . Remember that making the screen transparent is not a solution, as we would see the guts of the smartphone as such.


Apparently, the concept of transparency for this new patent is based on an OLED panel, more economical at the energy level, whose display panel is transparent and not opaque. The solution seems ingenious but, as we have already said, it does not solve the problems of the other components. Although perhaps Samsung will evolve it and use it in folding or unrolling screens , which may have the components at one end. Be that as it may, we are talking about patents.