Samsung patents tool to erase objects from photos using AI
This filing describes a method where a user selects an object in a photo, and the device creates a mask around it. The system then uses generative AI to replace that object with the surrounding background, effectively removing it from the image.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device includes: a display; at least one processor; and a memory including one or more storage media storing instructions. The instructions, when individually or integrally executed by the at least one processor, may cause the electronic device to: display a first image via a user interface, the first image including an object image region and a background image region; receive, while the first image is displayed, an input selecting the object image region in the first image; identify, based on the input, an outline of the object image region; generate a mask region related to the outline of the object image region; transform the mask region to have a different outline; and based on information related to the first image including the transformed mask region, generate, through a generative artificial intelligence, a second image in which the object image region is changed to the background image region.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a display; at least one processor; and memory including one or more storage media storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: display a first image via a user interface, the first image including an object image region and a background image region; receive, while the first image is displayed, an input selecting the object image region in the first image; identify, based on the input, an outline of the object image region; generate a mask region related to the outline of the object image region; transform the mask region to have a different outline; and based on information related to the first image including the transformed mask region, generate, through a generative artificial intelligence, a second image in which the object image region is changed to the background image region.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD USING ELECTRONIC DEVICE
- Publication number
- US20260289870A1
- Application number
- 19689409
- Filed
- May 27, 2026
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/60 Physics & computingG06T 7/11 Physics & computingG06T 7/13 Physics & computingG06V 10/25 Physics & computingG06T 2200/24 Physics & computingG06T 2207/20092 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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