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Samsung patents photo fix that swaps closed eyes for open ones

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Patent drawing from the official filing.

Samsung has filed a patent for a camera feature that detects when someone blinks in a burst of photos. It replaces the closed eyes in the best photo with open eyes from a pre-stored image, then aligns the rest of the picture to match.

Why it mattersThis could make group photos easier to get right by automatically fixing the common problem of someone blinking at the wrong moment.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device includes one or more cameras, a display, at least one processor, and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain multiple images in response to a shooting request; determine a first reference image based on one or more of sharpness, brightness, or capture time; identify at least one object with a closed-eye state in the first reference image; generate a second reference image by combining a prestored eye-area image with the object's eye area in the first reference image; calculate a movement difference between the second reference image and remaining images while excluding eye areas identified as closed; and display an image synthesized from the plurality of images based on the calculated movement difference.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: one or more cameras; a display; at least one processor; and a memory storing instructions, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the electronic device to: obtain a plurality of images comprising one or more objects by using the one or more cameras, in response to a shooting request from a user; determine a first reference image among the plurality of images, based on one or more of sharpness, brightness, or capture time associated with each of the images; identify at least one object in a closed-eye state from the first reference image; obtain a second reference image by combining a prestored eye area image with an eye area of the at least one object in the first reference image; calculate a movement difference between the second reference image and remaining images while excluding, in the remaining images, any eye area identified as being in a closed-eye state; and display, on the display, an image obtained by synthesizing the plurality of images, based on the calculated movement difference.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
OBTAINING IMAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR
Publication number
US20260330603A1
Application number
19466072
Filed
Jan 30, 2026
Published
Oct 22, 2026
Inventors
4
Claims
20

Classified under

G06T 5/50 Physics & computingG06T 5/73 Physics & computingG06T 7/0002 Physics & computingG06T 7/248 Physics & computingG06T 7/337 Physics & computingG06V 40/18 Physics & computing
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