Clipboard Content Extraction With Selectable Clip Alternatives
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional clipboard functions in electronic devices often mistakenly capture unintended areas, requiring users to perform additional editing to remove unnecessary content, leading to inefficiencies in data copying and pasting.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device is equipped with a processor that analyzes clip data based on text or image recognition to generate additional clip data, distinguishing meaningful content and providing indicators for user selection, thereby improving the accuracy of data extraction and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional clipboard function copies entire specified area, then copying operation is simple, but unintended content is included requiring additional editing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts meaningful content from the copied data by analyzing text and images. The processor identifies and separates relevant information (such as text within images, extracted contact information, or key data points) from the rest of the copied content, allowing users to obtain only the necessary information without manual editing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing step between copying and pasting. The processor acts as a mediator that automatically analyzes the copied data, generates structured information, and presents it to the user before final pasting, thereby improving accuracy without adding significant user effort.
2Quantity of substance
If clipboard function stores only original clip data, then storage is efficient, but meaningful content extraction is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the copied data into multiple components for separate storage and management. Instead of storing only the original clip data, the system divides the content into structured elements (such as extracted text, images, metadata, and meaningful information) that can be independently accessed and utilized.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary analysis and extraction of meaningful content at the time of copying. The processor proactively identifies and extracts relevant information before the user needs it, so that when the user pastes, the meaningful content is already prepared and ready for use, eliminating the need for subsequent manual extraction.
3Manufacturing precision
If additional analysis is performed on clip data, then meaningful content is extracted, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial analysis to the copied data, focusing computational resources on identifying and extracting the most meaningful and frequently used content types. Rather than performing exhaustive analysis on all possible data elements, the system prioritizes extraction of high-value information (such as text from images, contact details, or key data points) while skipping less critical processing, thereby reducing overall processing time while maintaining high extraction accuracy for important content.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device may include: a display for displaying content; a memory for storing data corresponding to the content; and a processor operatively connected to the display and the memory, wherein the processor may be configured to: display content on the display; in response to a user input related to copying, store at least a partial area of the content as first clip data; generate second clip data different from the first clip data on the basis of at least a part of a result of image or text analysis relating to the first clip data; and display, on the display, a first indicator relating to the first clip data and a second indicator relating to the second clip data. Other various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.