Samsung patents sharing photos from folded phone's outer screen after a call
This patent describes a method where a foldable phone detects when it is being closed to end a call. It then uses the outer screen to show a selection of images based on the call context, allowing the user to pick one and send it to the person they were talking to.
In the filing’s own words
A method includes detecting a closure of an electronic device that ends a communication session involving a user of the electronic device. The method also includes displaying, on an external display of the electronic device viewable when the electronic device is closed and based on a context associated with at least one of the electronic device or the user, multiple images for selection by the user. In addition, the method includes receiving a selection by the user of at least one of the displayed images and initiating transmission of the at least one selected image to another electronic device associated with another party involved with the communication session.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: detecting, by an electronic device, a closure of the electronic device into a closed configuration that ends a communication session involving a user of the electronic device; generating, by the electronic device, a query comprising at least one search tag in response to the electronic device detecting the closure; obtaining multiple images in response to the query; simultaneously displaying, on an external display of the electronic device viewable when the electronic device is in the closed configuration and based on a context associated with at least one of the electronic device or the user, the multiple images for selection by the user; receiving a selection by the user of at least one of the displayed images; and initiating transmission of the at least one selected image to another electronic device associated with another party involved with the communication session.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Post-call image sharing via secondary display of electronic device
- Patent number
- US12764224B2
- Application number
- 18150073
- Filed
- Jan 4, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 13, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04M 1/72484 Electricity & electronicsH04M 1/72454 Electricity & electronicsH04M 1/72469 Electricity & electronicsH04M 1/0216 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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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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