Samsung patents video trick to create smooth slow motion on phones
Samsung describes a method for making slow-motion videos by generating missing frames between existing ones. Instead of working directly with the full image data, the system compresses the video into a smaller, simplified format, creates the new frames in that compressed space, and then expands them back into full images. This approach aims to make the slow-motion effect smoother and more efficient.
In the filing’s own words
A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device of an electronic device, input video frames in a pixel space. The method also includes compressing, using the at least one processing device, two adjacent input video frames to obtain corresponding input latent feature sets in a latent space. The method further includes generating, using the at least one processing device, intermediate latent feature sets in the latent space based on the input latent feature sets. The method also includes decompressing, using the at least one processing device, the intermediate latent feature sets to obtain interpolated video frames in the pixel space. In addition, the method includes inserting, using the at least one processing device, the interpolated video frames between the two adjacent input video frames to obtain a slow motion video.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: obtaining, using at least one processing device of an electronic device, input video frames in a pixel space; compressing, using the at least one processing device, two adjacent input video frames to obtain corresponding input latent feature sets in a latent space; generating, using the at least one processing device, intermediate latent feature sets in the latent space based on the input latent feature sets; decompressing, using the at least one processing device, the intermediate latent feature sets to obtain interpolated video frames in the pixel space; and inserting, using the at least one processing device, the interpolated video frames between the two adjacent input video frames to obtain a slow motion video.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- COMPRESSED-DOMAIN HIGH-RESOLUTION SLOW MOTION VIDEO PROCESSING
- Publication number
- US20260292098A1
- Application number
- 19253569
- Filed
- Jun 27, 2025
- Published
- Sep 24, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04N 7/0127 Electricity & electronicsH04N 7/014 Electricity & electronicsH04N 19/124 Electricity & electronicsH04N 19/172 Electricity & electronicsH04N 19/196 Electricity & electronicsH04N 19/44 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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