Samsung patents AR glasses that blend real objects into virtual scenes
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable device, likely smart glasses, that uses a camera to detect specific real-world objects. When it spots an object in a pre-set category, the device overlays that real object onto the virtual display, allowing users to see physical items within a digital environment.
In the filing’s own words
According to an embodiment, a processor of a wearable device may identify a first visual object among a plurality of visual objects in a first image frame displayed through the display. The processor may identify, based on identifying the first visual object, a second visual object associated with the first visual object. The processor may obtain, after the second visual object is identified, a second image frame via the camera. The processor may modify at least a portion of the second image frame in which at least one of other visual objects of the plurality of visual objects different from the first visual object and the second visual object is removed. The processor may display, via the display, the second image frame including the modified portion.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A wearable device comprising: at least one camera; at least one display; memory including one or more storage media storing instructions; at least one processor including processing circuitry, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the wearable device to: display, via the at least one display, a virtual image; while displaying the virtual image, obtain an image frame by using the at least one camera; determine whether a visual object in a preset category is included in the image frame; and based on the visual object determined as included in the image frame, display, via the at least one display together with the virtual image, a portion of the image frame including the visual object.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- WEARABLE DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAYING OF VISUAL OBJECT CORRESPONDING TO EXTERNAL OBJECT AND METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260301246A1
- Application number
- 19698736
- Filed
- Jun 4, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/00 Physics & computingG06F 1/163 Physics & computingG06F 3/013 Physics & computingG06T 7/70 Physics & computingG06V 10/764 Physics & computingG10L 25/51 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AR, VR & displays
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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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