Samsung patents tool to cut objects out of photos and videos
Samsung describes a method for electronic devices to identify specific items within a photo or video when a user selects them. The system then cuts these items out to create separate files, which are saved alongside the original media and its details.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the display and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to recognize a plurality of objects from an image or video displayed on the display, based on a user input, separate one object or multiple objects from the plurality of objects that are recognized, generate clipping data from the one object or multiple objects separated from the plurality of objects, display the clipping data on the display, and store, in the memory, the clipping data together with metadata of the image or video including the plurality of objects.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a display; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the display and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: recognize a plurality of objects from an image or video displayed on the display, based on a user input, separate one object or multiple objects from the plurality of objects that are recognized, generate clipping data from the one object or multiple objects separated from the plurality of objects, display the clipping data on the display, and store, in the memory, the clipping data together with metadata of the image or video including the plurality of objects.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- METHOD FOR UTILIZING CLIPPING DATA ON BASIS OF OBJECT RECOGNITION, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260321291A1
- Application number
- 19462425
- Filed
- Jan 28, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G11B 27/031 Physics & computingG06V 10/764 Physics & computingMore from Samsung in AI & software
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