Samsung patents AI video scaling for better calls
Samsung has been granted a patent for a method that uses an artificial intelligence model to shrink video images before they are sent over a network. The system checks the current data speed and uses AI to create a smaller, lower-resolution version of the camera feed that fits within that limit.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes memory, a camera module, a communication module, and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory, the camera module, and the communication module. The memory, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to establish a call connection with a network based on the communication module, identify a first image captured based on the camera module, identify first information associated with a first bitrate corresponding to the first image, based on a communication environment between the network and the electronic device, identify a second image corresponding to the first image output from an artificial intelligence model for down-scaling, trained to receive information associated with a high-resolution image and a bitrate as an input value to output a low-resolution image, by inputting the first image and the first information to the artificial intelligence model, and transmit the second image through the call connection.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: memory storing instructions; a camera module; a communication module; and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory, the camera module and the communication module, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: establish a call connection with a network based on the communication module, identify a first image captured based on the camera module, identify first information associated with a first bitrate corresponding to the first image, based on a communication environment between the network and the electronic device by identifying a first bit per pixel (BPP) obtained by dividing the first bitrate by a product of a first framerate associated with the first image and a resolution associated with the first image, as the first information, identify a second image corresponding to the first image output from an artificial intelligence model for down-scaling, trained to receive information associated with a high-resolution image and a bitrate as an input value to output a low-resolution image, by inputting the first image and the first information to the artificial intelligence model, and transmit the second image through the call connection based on the communication module.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- Electronic device performing scaling using artificial intelligence model and method for operating the same
- Patent number
- US12770217B2
- Application number
- 18518787
- Filed
- Nov 24, 2023
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 18
Classified under
G06T 3/4046 Physics & computingG06T 5/50 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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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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