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Samsung patents touch screen that learns your tap style

Samsung describes a method where an electronic device analyzes how you touch the screen, including the duration and area of the touch, along with internal air pressure changes. It uses this data to train an artificial intelligence model that recognizes your specific input style and performs the correct action.

Why it mattersThis could make touch screens feel more responsive by adapting to individual users' physical habits rather than treating every tap the same.

In the filing’s own words

Provided is an electronic device configured to perform an operation corresponding to a user input by using an artificial intelligence model, and a method performed by the electronic device, of performing the operation. The method comprises obtaining touch data related to a touch input of a user, identifying a first training data set similar to the touch data from a plurality of pre-stored training data sets, training an artificial intelligence model based on the first training data set, identifying a type of a user input that is input to the electronic device, based on the trained artificial intelligence model, and performing an operation corresponding to the identified type of the user input.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising: obtaining touch data related to a touch input of a user, wherein the touch data includes data indicating at least one of a time interval during which the touch input is received or an area of a region of the touch input; obtaining a feature vector from air pressure data by applying the air pressure data to an artificial intelligence model, the air pressure data being related to a change in air pressure inside the electronic device caused by the touch input of the user; selecting a first training data set from among a plurality of pre-stored training data sets, the first training data set selected based on a similarity between the at least one of the time interval or the area of the region of the touch data and at least one of a time interval or an area of a region of a touch input of each of the plurality of pre-stored training data sets and selected based on a result of comparing the feature vector obtained from the air pressure data with a plurality of feature vectors obtained from air pressure data included in the plurality of pre-stored training data sets, respectively; training the artificial intelligence model based on the first training data set; identifying a type of a user input that is input to the electronic device, based on the trained artificial intelligence model; and performing an operation corresponding to the identified type of the user input.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
Personalized electronic device inferring user input, and method for controlling same
Patent number
US12730555B2
Application number
18221288
Filed
Jul 12, 2023
Granted
Sep 8, 2026
Inventors
3
Claims
15

Classified under

G06F 3/04883 Physics & computingG06F 3/0414 Physics & computing
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