Samsung patents feature to open apps from text in photos
Samsung describes a system that reads text visible in a photo and automatically suggests the specific app needed to use that information. When a user taps the suggested icon, the device opens that app directly, skipping the need to search for it manually.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided that includes a display, memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one processor including processing circuitry. The instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to display, through the display, a still image including one or more image objects corresponding to text, based on an input for analyzing the still image being displayed, obtain text information corresponding to the one or more image objects of the still image, select a designated application corresponding to the still image from among a plurality of applications, based on at least a portion of the text information, display, through the display, a screen including a visual object for executing the designated application and the still image, and, in response to an input related to the visual object, display, through the display, an execution screen of the designated application.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a display; memory, including one or more storage media, storing instructions; and at least one processor, including 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, through the display, a still image including one or more image objects corresponding to text, based on an input for analyzing the still image being displayed, obtain text information corresponding to the one or more image objects of the still image, select a designated application corresponding to the still image from among a plurality of applications, based on at least a portion of the text information, display, through the display, a screen including a visual object for executing the designated application and the still image, and in response to an input related to the visual object, display, through the display, an execution screen of the designated application.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION GENERATED ON BASIS OF IMAGE
- Publication number
- US20260320999A1
- Application number
- 19704824
- Filed
- Jun 11, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 6
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G06V 10/945 Physics & computingG06F 3/0484 Physics & computingG06F 9/451 Physics & computingG06V 10/764 Physics & computingG06V 30/19173 Physics & computingG06V 30/30 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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