Xiaomi Patents Smartphone Design with Waterfall Display :
Xiaomi reveals a smartphone with navigation and status icons on the sides of the waterfall display.
Xiaomi Patents Smartphone Design with Waterfall Display as the Xiaomi has filed a new smartphone design patent with the Chinese patent office CNIPA in china. The design shows a new method that can be adapted for better usage of waterfall displays on smartphones. The patent was reportedly published on April 3 and now it has been included in the Global Design Database of the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO).
The new patented design by the Chinese company shows the phone with a waterfall display, with the screen covering about 60 % of the sides of the phone. A waterfall display is essentially a curved screen that goes slightly over sides of the phone.Xiaomi had filed this patent on September 2019 with CNIPA, therefore it was published on April 3.
The website shows that the waterfall display on the patented Xiaomi phone falls back to a close upto 90 degree angle. According to the given report, both edges of the patented Xiaomi phone's are more than 60 % screen because of this waterfall design.
Apart from design, the Xiaomi patent focuses on the use of new case for the waterfall display. The two sides of the prototype phone seems to hold the navigation controls and the status icons interface.
The report has also speculated that this Xiaomi smartphone might also come with a under-display front camera as well as possible. The report did not give anything to support the claim, apart from citing a 2019 prototype that the company showed with an under display front camera. It's not clear if Xiaomi will ever use the patented design on the commercial product.
Now, this could be a interesting step from the Xiaomi as it seems to be a useful UI design for optimal usage of the screen space.
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