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Samsung Works on Further Improving OLED for Phones, Our Patent Search Finds

Samsung researchers are working on further improving OLED for mobile phones, with our review finding the company's applications published at the Patent and Trademark Office at the rate of about 10 a month. The company said it fashioned a way…

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to make an OLED screen function as a camera. Windows and sensors let a screen detect 3D depth and how far an object is, so a display can take photographs, recognize control gestures, sense proximity and make eye-to-eye contact for a video call. Other applications describe bendable and stretchable OLED screens, including one that opens and closes like a book, so the device size can be halved by folding.