Samsung Receives Patent For Smart Contact Lenses (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Samsung has received a patent in South Korea for interactive contact lenses. The lenses will be formed of a transmitter, a camera, a display unit, and movement sensors. The lenses will be controlled by blinking. The contact lenses will be able to receive [videos or images] from a nearby smartphone, which will double as a processing unit for interactive controls and a storage device for pictures taken with the lens' camera. While Google and Swiss healthcare startup Sensimed have been working on contact lenses to cure medical diseases, Samsung's lenses are for experimenting with new methods of delivering augmented reality interfaces and data.

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Re: conceptual patent

[safetyinnumbers]

I'm wondering what sort of display could produce a focused image. You can't just put OLEDs or whatever right against the lens and be able to see them clearly. You'd have to collimate it somehow.