I filed a patent for a way to hide a camera directly behind the pixels of a display screen. Unfortunately (perhaps fortunately!) the patent suffered failure-to-thrive in the litigation process, and sits dead but published. It has been referenced by the likes of Samsung, LG, Lucent, and Apple, but given its status, I will not be receiving my check for millions any time soon ~ such is life!

I first filed for utility patent in 2005 when there were mere rumors that the ubiquitous LCD would one day be replaced by something new.. something brilliant, bright and potentially transparent: OLED technology. Now, more than a decade later, OLED is only just emerging.

At the time, I was following the trend in video conferencing via mobile devices - that was several years before the birth of Facetime, and somewhere at the beginning of video Skype. I wanted to find a way to correct that annoying problem where it always looks like the person with whom you chat is looking somewhere else. I wanted to fix the eye-line problem and make face to face video truly eye-to-eye. The solution, in my mind, was to find a way to hide a camera behind the screen.