Samsung patents photo editing that swaps objects using saved data
Samsung describes a method for electronic devices to let users replace specific items in a photo with AI-generated alternatives. When a user taps a visual marker on an edited image, the device pulls original details from hidden metadata to guide the AI in creating the new object.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device and a method of operating the same are provided. The method includes displaying, via a display, an edited image including a modified object, and a visual object with respect to the modified object, receiving a user input with respect to the visual object while displaying the edited image, and based on the user input, obtaining information to replace the modified object with an artificial intelligence (AI) generated object from metadata corresponding to the edited image, generating an AI generated image by executing an artificial intelligence model using the edited image and the information, and displaying, via the display, the AI generated image as a response to the user input.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a display; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor comprising processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the display and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: display, via the display: an edited image including a modified object, and a visual object with respect to the modified object, receive a user input with respect to the visual object while displaying the edited image, and based on the user input: obtain information to replace the modified object with an artificial intelligence (AI) generated object from metadata corresponding to the edited image, generate an AI generated image by executing an AI model using the edited image and the information, and display, via the display, the AI generated image as a response to the user input.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR EXECUTING RESTORATION FUNCTION BY USING METADATA OF IMAGE, AND METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260320875A1
- Application number
- 19698340
- Filed
- Jun 4, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06T 11/60 Physics & computingG06F 3/04845 Physics & computingG06T 2200/24 Physics & computingMore 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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