This is the last patent home Samsung : the invisible buttons or otherwise of the sensors sensitive to touch, places on the body side of the device or on the edges of the display, which for the most part of the time of the use of the device, remain completely hidden without that none can even imagine their existence.
The question that many of you will arise is this: “What do I need the keys so camouflaged, so I can not even recognize where they are?”. The question is more than justified, but Samsung has thought of that. It is the task of the software, at certain times, depending on the application that we are using, to indicate the presence and the location of these keys (which can not be then properly define “physical”).
For each of these invisible buttons on smartphones then, you can freely assign different functionality for each application (such as in a video game).
Speaking of patents, the Korean house has also made ??official the filing of a patent covering a convertible notebook-tablet, with real hooks physical and non-magnetic (as if the keyboard was a cover). Yet we can not know which operating system could mount this tablet, but the rumors see the possibility that this is the future Tab Pro S or a future hybrid device with Windows 10.