Iris Ring trademark application hints at iris scanners making a return

Concluding updated: August 25th, 2020 at xix:27 UTC+01:00

Samsung has filed a trademark awarding with KIPRIS to secure an unusual moniker or brand calledIris Ring. The trademark application was filed final week and it was discovered by our colleagues at GalaxyClub. Information technology doesn't incorporate whatever logos or information regarding the potential use of the Iris Band name simply the awarding was filed by Samsung Display, which raises some interesting questions.

Given that the trademark was filed past Samsung's display arm and not the mobile division, logic dictates that the Iris Ring name should pertain to a product or technology that's in development in Samsung Display's labs. Equally to what it could be, your guess is equally skilful as ours, but we're very tempted to explore the possibility of iris scanners making a comeback.

Is Samsung planning the return of iris scanners?

This is pure conjecture, listen you lot, as the trademark application just doesn't contain enough information to determine the purpose of Iris Band. Nevertheless, a most-exciting scenario we tin can call up of is Samsung Display and the mobile sectionalization working together to create under-panel iris scanners.

Regular iris scanners have been used by Samsung flagships before merely the technology was removed with the Galaxy S10 and subsequent flagship models, or in other words, with the emergence of bezelless displays. Meanwhile, Samsung is reportedly working on creating nether-panel cameras for its phones and the development reached a point where the engineering science was near implemented into the Galaxy Z Fold 2 – if a previous industry rumor is to be believed.

Iris scanner are essentially camera sensors. Granted, they're not conventional, but they work on the aforementioned principles as the cameras you apply to capture stills. And with under-panel cameras peradventure becoming a reality in the about hereafter, Samsung'due south mobile and brandish divisions might be working together to bring iris scanners back in conjunction with under-panel technology.

Information technology'southward a stretch, we agree, so don't become your hopes up notwithstanding, but the trademark awarding is real and the proper noun is undeniably intriguing. Perhaps nosotros will be lucky enough to come across iris scanners returning in 2021. Or possibly this trademark will never materialize in the course of a real production. Only if it will, what's your best guess on what Iris Ring could be?