Samsung patents phone feature that places your face into photos
Samsung has filed a patent for a system that combines images from a phone's front and rear cameras to create a selfie. It uses AI to detect the user in the front-facing shot and automatically places them into the background scene captured by the rear camera. The system also suggests a specific position for the user within the final image.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device for generating a combined image, including: a first camera; a second camera; at least one processor configured to implement at least one artificial intelligence (AI) model; and a memory configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: obtain a first input image captured using the first camera, obtain a second input image captured using the second camera, detect, using the at least one AI model, a user of the electronic device in the second input image, generate, using the at least one AI model, a user image including the user, generate, using the at least one AI model, a preview image based on the first input image, wherein the preview image includes a portion of the first input image and a placement proposal indicator that is disposed at a proposed position within the preview image, and generate, using the at least one AI model, the combined image based on the preview image, wherein the combined image includes the portion of the first input image, and the user image disposed at the proposed position.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device for generating a combined image, the electronic device comprising: a first camera; a second camera; at least one processor configured to implement at least one artificial intelligence (AI) model; and a memory configured to store instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: obtain a first input image captured using the first camera, obtain a second input image captured using the second camera, detect, using the at least one AI model, a user of the electronic device in the second input image, generate, using the at least one AI model, a user image including the user, generate, using the at least one AI model, a preview image based on the first input image, wherein the preview image comprises a portion of the first input image and a placement proposal indicator that is disposed at a proposed position within the preview image, and generate, using the at least one AI model, the combined image based on the preview image, wherein the combined image comprises the portion of the first input image, and the user image disposed at the proposed position.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- SELFIE INTEGRATION SYSTEM FOR MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY
- Publication number
- US20260320745A1
- Application number
- 19174638
- Filed
- Apr 9, 2025
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 5/50 Physics & computingG06T 5/60 Physics & computingG06V 20/36 Physics & computingG06V 20/39 Physics & computingH04N 23/57 Electricity & electronicsH04N 23/631 Electricity & electronicsMore 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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