Samsung patents one-tap calendar entry from screenshots
This filing describes a feature where taking a screenshot of content on a screen triggers a prompt to save that information as a calendar event. The system identifies the event details from the captured image and lets you confirm the addition to your calendar without leaving the current app.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device for providing a recommended task and a control method are provided. The electronic device includes wireless communication circuitry, a display, memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor, including processing circuitry, communicatively coupled to the wireless communication circuitry, the display, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to present, via the display, content obtained using the wireless communication circuitry, receive a first input during presentation of the content, the first input corresponding to a command to take a screenshot, present, based on the first input, a user interface element for adding an event to a calendar, the event being identified based on the content, and add the event to the calendar based on a second user input via the user interface element, during presentation of the content.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: wireless communication circuitry; a display; memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor, including processing circuitry, communicatively coupled to the wireless communication circuitry, the display, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: present, via the display, content obtained using the wireless communication circuitry, receive a first input during presentation of the content, the first input corresponding to a command to take a screenshot, present, based on the first input, a user interface element for adding an event to a calendar, the event being identified based on the content, and add the event to the calendar based on a second input received via the user interface element, during presentation of the content.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR PROVIDING RECOMMENDED TASK
- Publication number
- US20260319644A1
- Application number
- 19700945
- Filed
- Jun 8, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06F 3/0484 Physics & computingG06F 3/0482 Physics & computingG06F 9/453 Physics & computingG06Q 10/1097 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in Phones & computers
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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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