Samsung patents projector that expands video frames to fill screen
Samsung has been granted a patent for an electronic device that acts as a projector to display video larger than the source screen. The device analyzes the video to calculate how much time it has to generate extra pixels, known as out-painting, before the current scene changes. It then projects these expanded frames so the image covers a wider area than the original display.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. A processor of the electronic device may cause the electronic device to obtain first information for a first video displayable through a display of an external electronic device, from the external electronic device using a communication circuit. The processor may cause the electronic device to execute a scan on the first video using a plurality of images in the first video. may cause the electronic device to identify a time to be spent to obtain second information for displaying a second video expanded from the first video to be displayed through the display of the external electronic device, based on the scan. The disclosure relates to a metaverse service for enhancing interconnectivity between a real object and a virtual object. For example, the metaverse service is provided through a network based on fifth generation (5G) and/or sixth generation (6G).
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: communication circuitry; a projection assembly; at least one processor comprising processing circuitry; and memory comprising one or more storage mediums storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: obtain, from an external electronic device using the communication circuitry, first information for displaying a video to be played through a display of the external electronic device, identify, based on the first information, at least one part of the video expandable by out-painting frames included in the at least one part of the video, identify a remaining time to a time at which the frames included in the at least one part of the video are played through the display, the remaining time being a time for the electronic device to out-paint the frames included in the at least one part of the video, determine, based on the remaining time, a size of expanded frames to be out-painted from the frames included in the at least one part, generate, during the remaining time, the expanded frames by out-painting the frames, and display, using the projection assembly, the expanded frames including a black area partially overlapping the video displayed through the display of the external electronic device, at a time when the at least one part including the frames is displayed.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Electronic device, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for displaying other video corresponding to video displayed on external electronic device
- Patent number
- US12732599B2
- Application number
- 19278257
- Filed
- Jul 23, 2025
- Granted
- Sep 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04N 9/3188 Electricity & electronicsG06T 7/215 Physics & computingG06T 2207/10016 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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