Samsung patents method to fix blurry video in mixed reality headsets
Samsung describes a technique for devices that show digital objects over the real world, such as mixed reality headsets. The system analyzes video from a camera to find specific areas that look poor, like blurry or noisy spots, and applies targeted fixes to improve the picture before you see it.
In the filing’s own words
A method includes capturing an image with an external camera of a device, the image having a number of image quality features, determining from the image, using a processor, a regional image quality map corresponding to each image quality feature and global image quality features, determining, using the processor, at least one criterion corresponding to each image quality feature, for each image quality feature, classifying, using the processor, the image into a quality category based on a comparison of the corresponding regional image quality map to the corresponding at least one criterion, determining, using the processor, an image enhancement algorithm based on the quality categories, determining, using the processor, adaptive parameters for the image enhancement algorithm based on the regional image quality maps and the global image quality features, enhancing, using the processor, the image with the image enhancement algorithm using the adaptive parameters, and displaying the enhanced image.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising: capturing an image with an external camera of the device, the image having a number of image quality features; determining from the image, using a processor of the device, a regional image quality map corresponding to each image quality feature and global image quality features; determining, using the processor, at least one criterion corresponding to each image quality feature; for each image quality feature, classifying, using the processor, the image into a quality category based on a comparison of the corresponding regional image quality map to the corresponding at least one criterion; determining, using the processor, an image enhancement algorithm based on the quality categories; determining, using the processor, adaptive parameters for the image enhancement algorithm based on the regional image quality maps and the global image quality features; enhancing, using the processor, the image with the image enhancement algorithm using the adaptive parameters; and displaying the enhanced image.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- HEURISTIC ADAPTIVE IMAGE QUALITY DETECTION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR VIDEO SEE-THROUGH MIXED REALITY
- Publication number
- US20260311302A1
- Application number
- 19568592
- Filed
- Mar 16, 2026
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 5/70 Physics & computingG06F 3/013 Physics & computingG06T 7/0002 Physics & computingG06T 2207/30168 Physics & computingG06V 10/764 Physics & computingG06V 10/993 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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