Samsung’s next generation technology for TV could be based on holographic display technique. This comes via a new Samsung patent application which was published this month by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The patent highlights their all-new holographic TV that’s going to be a step forward from conventional 3D TVs.

The first generation 3D TVs weren’t really well received in the market because they require consumers to wear traditional 3D glasses. The holographic technology aims to eliminate the need for glasses using revolutionary 3D image display methods.

In the patent, Samsung highlights some of the issues with 3D TVs, explaining these use binocular parallax which makes it difficult to increase the number of viewpoints. In addition to this, the difference between the depth perceived by the brain and the focus of the eye tends to make viewers feel tired.

The holographic display technique provides an absolute parallax by making the depth perceived by the brain consistent with the focus of the eyes. The patent further details what components will be required to power this holographic TV, noting it could even include an eye tracking unit to track a pupil location of an observer.

For a basic overview of the system, see Patently Mobile’s full report here.

Samsung filed this patent with the USPTO back in January this year, but it has just now been published. At this point, we don’t know when such a product will hit the market, or if Samsung could ever come out with a holographic TV in the first place considering many patent applications never come to fruition.