Smartphone
The dual-screen smartphone design addresses usability issues by maintaining functionality through redundant screens, ensuring critical functions remain accessible even if one screen fails.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- FR2023006031
- Authority / Receiving Office
- FR · FR
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2023-06-14
- Publication Date
- 2024-12-20
AI Technical Summary
Smartphones can become unusable due to hardware or software failures, especially in isolated areas with no repair services, leading to critical functions like videoconferencing, photo sharing, and online transactions being hindered.
A smartphone design featuring dual physical screens on the front and back sides, allowing continued functionality even if one screen fails, and applicable to various screen types and operating systems.
Ensures continued smartphone operation by providing redundant display capabilities, enabling essential functions even when one screen is non-functional.
Abstract
Description
Title of the invention: Smartphone
[0001] Today, the mobile phone and more specifically the smart mobile phone, that is to say the Smartphone, is present everywhere and is indispensable in our daily lives.
[0002] Said smartphone allows us to communicate with people around the world, check our emails, carry out banking transactions, browse the internet, make purchases and perform administrative procedures online.
[0003] Thanks to the integrated camera, said smartphone allows us to attend video conferences, visit places, control our home, our store remotely and take photos, videos, and send them to the other side of the world.
[0004] Thanks to the broadband network, the speed of data transmission and reception is faster, allowing us to watch movies, matches and games without interruption.
[0005] Said smartphone has become a multimedia device.
[0006] The said smartphone has become our photo album, our electronic confidant.
[0007] Among the critical situations: - said smartphone just fell on the ground, the screen is broken. - the screen of said smartphone no longer works, it is a hardware failure. - the screen of said smartphone no longer displays anything, this is a software failure, a faulty application or a virus. - etc.
[0008] Because of these critical situations, I can no longer: - to attend a video conference. - send photos and / or videos. - read an important email. - to confirm an online purchase. - to retrieve a phone number from my contacts. - to read a map or a geographical location. - etc.
[0009] Among the problems that arise: - I am in an isolated place. - I am in a place where there are no phone repair shops. - It's very late or it's a public holiday, all the shops are closed. - etc.
[0010] The solution: The device according to the invention makes it possible to overcome this drawback; it is a smartphone with several physical screens, that is to say, a physical screen on The front face of said smartphone and a physical screen on the back face of said smartphone.
[0011] Said smartphone has a physical screen on its front face, i.e. face 1 of said smartphone, and said smartphone has a physical screen on its back face, i.e. face 2 of said smartphone.
[0012] The front face of said smartphone has a physical screen and the back face of said smartphone has a physical screen.
[0013] As regards the foldable smartphone, there are two separate parts, each part has a front face and a back face, that is to say each part has a face 1 and a face 2. The foldable smartphone in question has two sides.
[0014] Said foldable smartphone has at least four faces.
[0015] The said invention also applies to non-smart mobile phones.
[0016] The said invention is independent of the screen size.
[0017] The said invention is independent of the operating system which manages the screen of said smartphone.
[0018] The said invention is independent of the chip which stores the data which will be displayed on the screen of said smartphone.
[0019] The said invention also applies to foldable smartphones.
[0020] The said invention applies to: - any kind of screen capable of displaying multimedia data. - a touch screen - a non-touchscreen - a screen with a physical keyboard, that is to say, a keyboard with physical keys
[0021] Said smartphone has on its front and has on its back at least one physical screen selected from the following physical screens: - touch screen - non-touchscreen - screen with a physical keyboard, that is to say with physical keys - any type of screen capable of displaying multimedia data
[0022] According to one embodiment, said smartphone has a physical screen on its front face and said smartphone has a physical screen on its back face.
[0023] According to one embodiment, said smartphone has several separate physical screens on its front face and said smartphone has several separate physical screens on its back face.
[0024] According to one embodiment, said front face of said smartphone comprises two separate physical screens.
[0025] According to one embodiment, said reverse side of said smartphone comprises two separate physical screens.
[0026] According to one embodiment, said smartphone includes a physical screen that can be embedded on its front face and / or a physical screen that can be embedded on its back face.
[0027] According to one embodiment, said smartphone comprises several physical screens that can be embedded on its front face and / or several physical screens that can be embedded on its back face.
[0028] According to one embodiment, the physical screens of said smartphone are managed by a single operating system of said smartphone.
[0029] According to one embodiment, the physical screens of said smartphone are managed by different operating systems.
[0030] According to one embodiment, said smartphone is a foldable smartphone.
[0031] According to one embodiment, said foldable smartphone has a physical screen on its front side and said foldable smartphone has a physical screen on its back side.
[0032] According to one embodiment, said foldable smartphone has at least four faces
[0033] According to one embodiment, said foldable smartphone comprises two independent parts, and each part has a front side with a physical screen and a back side with a screen.
[0034] According to one embodiment, said foldable smartphone includes one or more physical screens that can be embedded on each front face and / or one or more physical screens on each back face.
[0035] According to one embodiment, said smartphone has on each side physical screens of different sizes.
[0036] According to one embodiment, said smartphone has on each side physical screens independent of each other.
[0037] According to one embodiment, said smartphone comprises at least two physical screens.
Claims
Claims
1. Smartphone comprising several physical screens, characterized in that the front side of said smartphone comprises a physical screen and the back side of said smartphone comprises a physical screen. Said physical screen is selected from the following physical screens: - touch screen - non-touch screen - screen with physical keyboard - any kind of screens capable of displaying multimedia data
2. Smartphone according to claim 1, characterized in that said smartphone comprises one or more separate physical screens on its front side and said smartphone comprises one or more separate physical screens on its back side.
3. Smartphone according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that said smartphone accepts one or more physical screens that can be fitted on its front side and / or said smartphone accepts one or more physical screens that can be fitted on its back side.
4. Smartphone according to claim 1, characterized in that said smartphone is a foldable smartphone.
5. Smartphone according to claim 4, characterized in that said foldable smartphone has a physical screen on its front side and said foldable smartphone has a physical screen on its back side.
6. Smartphone according to claim 4, characterized in that said foldable smartphone comprises two independent parts.
7. Smartphone according to claim 6, characterized in that each part of said foldable smartphone comprises a physical screen on its front face and each part of said foldable smartphone comprises a physical screen on its back face.
8. Smartphone according to claims 4 to 7, characterized in that the foldable smartphone comprises one or more built-in physical screens.
9. Smartphone according to the preceding claims, characterized in that said smartphone comprises on each face physical screens of different sizes.
10. Smartphone according to the preceding claims, characterized in that said smartphone comprises on each face, independent physical screens- hanging from each other.
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