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Samsung patents ring that projects a screen onto your skin

Illustration of the invention
Illustration based on the patent drawing. Not a photo of a real product.
Patent drawing
Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung describes an electronic ring equipped with a projector and sensors that can display an image directly on the user's skin. The device uses motion tracking to automatically adjust the size, position, or angle of the projected image as the user moves their hand.

Why it mattersIt offers a potential new way to interact with digital information without looking at a separate screen, though the filing does not specify what content would be displayed.

In the filing’s own words

A first electronic ring device includes: a camera; sensor circuitry; projection circuitry; at least one processor; and a memory storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, may cause the first electronic ring device to: identify that the first electronic ring device is worn on a user's finger; control the projection circuitry to output a first projection screen on the surface of the user; and based on a motion of the user detected while the first projection screen is output, control the projection circuitry to adjust a length of at least one of a left side, a right side, a near side, and/or a far side of the first projection screen, the position of the first projection screen, and/or the rotation angle of the first projection screen.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A first ring electronic device comprising: a camera; sensor circuitry; projection circuitry; at least one processor comprising processing circuitry; and memory comprising one or more storage media storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, individually or in any combination, cause the first ring electronic device to: based on data received from the sensor circuitry, identify that the first ring electronic device is worn on a finger of a user; control the projection circuitry to output a first projection screen on a surface of the user while the first ring electronic device is worn on the finger of the user, wherein the first projection screen has a left side, a right side, a near side, and a far side; and based on a motion of the user detected while the first projection screen is output, control the projection circuitry to adjust at least one of a length of at least one of the left side, the right side, the near side, and/or the far side, a position of the first projection screen, and/or a rotation angle of the first projection screen.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
METHOD FOR PROVIDING PROJECTION SCREEN AND ELECTRONIC RING DEVICE PERFORMING METHOD
Publication number
US20260331012A1
Application number
19706236
Filed
Jun 12, 2026
Published
Oct 22, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
15

Classified under

G09G 3/001 Physics & computingG06F 3/014 Physics & computingG06T 7/20 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30196 Physics & computingG09G 2340/0464 Physics & computingG09G 2340/0492 Physics & computing
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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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