Samsung patents camera-based zone detection for interactive displays
This patent describes an electronic device that uses a camera to detect when a person enters a specific area near an object. If the user is in that zone and sends a signal from their phone, the device displays a specific screen or interface on its display.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic apparatus includes a display, a camera, a communication interface, a memory configured to store information, and a one or more processor configured to, based on the specific object being identified from an image obtained through the camera, identify a preset zone with respect to the identified specific object, based on a user being identified from the image obtained through the camera, identify whether the identified user is located within the preset zone, and based on a signal corresponding to a user interaction being received by the communication interface while the user is located in the preset zone, control the display to display a user interface screen corresponding to a type of the user interaction.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic apparatus comprising: a display; a camera; a communication interface; a memory configured to store information; and one or more processors configured to: based on a specific object being identified from a captured image obtained through the camera, identify a preset zone with respect to the specific object, based on a user being identified from the captured image, identify whether the user is located within the preset zone, based on the user being located in the preset zone, control the display to display a guide user interface (UI) corresponding to an input of a user interaction, based on a signal corresponding to a user interaction being received by the communication interface and identifying that the user is located in the preset zone, control the display to display a UI screen corresponding to a type of the user interaction; and based on the signal corresponding to a tap input on a user terminal, control the display of the electronic apparatus to display a user terminal image being displayed on the user terminal.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Electronic apparatus and control method thereof
- Patent number
- US12737097B2
- Application number
- 18387268
- Filed
- Nov 6, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 9
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/04842 Physics & computingG06F 3/14 Physics & computingG06V 10/25 Physics & computingG06V 40/172 Physics & computingG06V 2201/07 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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