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Samsung patents system that ranks home camera clips by unusual events

Samsung has been granted a patent for a method where an electronic device learns a user's normal behavior patterns from external cameras or IoT sensors. When the system detects an irregular event, it matches that event to specific video clips and ranks them by priority. The device then displays thumbnail images of these clips on a screen, showing the most relevant footage first.

Why it mattersThis could make it easier for people to quickly find important moments in long recordings from home security cameras or smart home sensors without manually watching hours of footage.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuit configured to transmit and receive data to and from an external device, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor may store a user pattern in the memory based on first sensing information detected during a first time period by at least one of an external camera device or an external Internet of things (IoT) device, detect occurrence of an irregular event based on second sensing information detected during a second time period by the external camera device or the external IoT device and the stored user pattern, match the irregular event that occurs with a plurality of images photographed by the external camera device, and determine priorities of the plurality of images based on a matching result.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: a communication circuit configured to transmit and receive data to and from an external device; a display: memory storing instructions; and a processor, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to: store a user pattern in the memory based on first sensing information detected during a first time period by at least one of an external camera device or an external Internet of things (IoT) device, detect occurrence of an irregular event based on the user pattern and second sensing information detected during a second time period by at least one of the external camera device or the external IoT device, receive a plurality of video clips captured by the external camera device, match the irregular event with a corresponding video clip among the plurality of video clips, determine a priority of the plurality of video clips based on a matching result, and display a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to respective ones of the plurality of video clips according to the priority on the display, wherein a thumbnail image corresponding to a video clip in which the irregular event occurred is determined based on an image obtained at a start time of the irregular event.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
Image processing method and electronic device supporting same
Patent number
US12731375B2
Application number
18319089
Filed
May 17, 2023
Granted
Sep 8, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
17

Classified under

G06V 10/764 Physics & computingG06T 3/40 Physics & computingG06V 10/443 Physics & computingG06V 20/44 Physics & computingG06V 20/52 Physics & computing
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