14 DAY TRIAL // Multiple patents filed by LG with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) and published on October 24 and November 2 show a smartphone design with an edge-to-edge display without bezels and an under-display camera, as discovered by LetsGoDigital.
The patents refer to two smartphone models, both with full-screen displays that spread from one edge to the other, one with straight edges and rounded corners, while the other has the right side of the screen curved for some unknown reason.
According to the LG patents published by KIPO both smartphone models they describe also feature flexible displays, a technology most manufacturers are supposed to transition to in the next few years.
Both models come with a hole in the display allowing for a camera to be added under the front cover glass, with the slot being of an oval shape to probably enclose two or more camera units.
LG's KIPO patents describe multiple smartphone models with full-screen displays and under-screen camera lenses
"The present application design inside of panel the hole is directly formed and the display (Full Screen Display) of the screen which observingly tightly kicks can be implemented and the effect that can minimize the bezel since it can have the camera within panel can be given," says one of the patents.
LG's patent is not the only one found to describe a full-screen smartphone with an under-screen camera given that Samsung's patent describes a smartphone with an edge-to-edge display featuring all the sensors and the camera neatly tucked under the screen.
Samsung's patent was published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on October 24, and it also illustrates a hologram device which would allow the smartphone users to effortlessly project 3D images in the air using either a projector or light interference.
According to some other rumors, LG also readies a foldable smartphone which might be unveiled early in 2018, during the CES 2019 annual technology conference for the consumer electronics industry.