Samsung patents screen privacy filter for sharing content
This patent describes a method for electronic devices to automatically hide private information when sharing screen content. The system analyzes what is currently on the screen and upcoming user events to identify which parts of the display are essential and which are private. It then shows only the necessary elements on a secondary display or sharing interface, leaving out sensitive details.
In the filing’s own words
A method for managing privacy of a screen view on an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying content on the screen view of an electronic device, where the content includes one or more private objects, determining the upcoming event(s) of a user of the electronic device and an associated user intent to share the displayed content during execution of the at least one upcoming event, determining one or more privacy parameters of the displayed content in relation to the upcoming event(s), and modifying the screen view of the electronic device based on one or more privacy parameters during execution of the upcoming event(s), where the modified screen view exclude some or more private objects which is not essential to execute the upcoming event(s).
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for managing privacy of a screen view on an electronic device comprising a first display and a second display, the method comprises: displaying, by the electronic device, a content on the first display of the electronic device, wherein the content comprises a plurality of UI components; determining, by the electronic device, at least one upcoming event of a user of the electronic device based on a plurality of event parameters of the displayed content, the plurality of event parameters comprising screen context information, time-stamp information, location information, and information associated with currently running application of the electronic device; determining, by the electronic device, one or more privacy parameters of the displayed content in relation to the at least one upcoming event; and displaying, by the electronic device, one or more sharing UI component of the plurality of UI components included in the content on the second display based on one or more privacy parameters, wherein the one or more privacy parameters comprises a region of interest (RoI), and wherein the RoI is determined by scraping the displayed content to extract the RoI and serializes the extracted RoI based on application content localization.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Method and electronic device for managing privacy of screen view
- Patent number
- US12737505B2
- Application number
- 18346481
- Filed
- Jul 3, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 12
Classified under
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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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