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Samsung patents image tagging that finds similar photos automatically

This filing describes a method for electronic devices to automatically identify photos that share specific characteristics with a selected image. The system displays a list of these similar images, allowing the user to apply a custom tag to the original photo and any additional images they choose from the list.

Why it mattersIt could make organizing large photo libraries faster by reducing the need to manually tag every similar picture individually.

In the filing’s own words

A method performed by electronic device is provided. The method includes identifying, by the electronic device, one or more first images to which a tag defined by a user input is assigned, based on a characteristic of the one or more first images, displaying, by the electronic device through the display, a plurality of second images among a plurality of images, and assigning, by the electronic device, the tag to the one or more first images and at least one third image selected by another user input among the plurality of second images.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: a display; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor comprising processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: identify one or more first images for assigning a tag defined by a user input, based on a characteristic of the one or more first images, display, through the display, a plurality of second images among a plurality of images, and assign the tag to the one or more first images and at least one third image selected by another user input among the plurality of second images.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR ASSIGNING TAG TO CONTENT
Publication number
US20260279083A1
Application number
19684258
Filed
May 21, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
5
Claims
20

Classified under

G06V 20/70 Physics & computingG06V 10/761 Physics & computing
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