Samsung patents lens stack with protective layer for wearable devices
Samsung describes a lens assembly for wearable electronics that combines at least three lenses with a specific arrangement of polarizing components. The design spaces out the polarizer, reflective polarizer, and quarter-wave plate from the beam splitter using lenses, and adds a hard layer to protect the softer polarizing parts.
In the filing’s own words
A lens assembly is provided. The lens assembly includes at least three lenses, and a polarizing part including a polarizer, a reflective polarizer, a quarter-wave plate, and a beam splitter sequentially disposed along a first direction, wherein the polarizer, the reflective polarizer, and the quarter-wave plate are spaced apart from the beam splitter with at least one lens among the at least three lenses interposed therebetween, and the polarizing part includes a layer that is harder than the polarizer and the reflective polarizer.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A lens assembly, comprising: at least three lenses; and a polarization part including a polarizer, a reflective polarizer, a quarter-wave plate, and a beam splitter sequentially disposed along a first direction, wherein the polarizer, the reflective polarizer, and the quarter-wave plate are spaced apart from the beam splitter with at least one lens among the at least three lenses interposed therebetween, and wherein the polarization part includes a layer that is harder than the polarizer and the reflective polarizer.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING POLARIZING STRUCTURE
- Publication number
- US20260267157A1
- Application number
- 19665623
- Filed
- May 1, 2026
- Published
- Sep 10, 2026
- Inventors
- 8
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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