Multi-Window Screen Capture With Individual Window Indicators

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Solution Overview

Problem

In multi-window display environments, capturing and sharing images of individual windows on electronic devices is cumbersome, requiring users to edit full-screen captures and load them into applications, degrading the user experience.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device is equipped with a processor that displays multiple windows and, upon receiving a specified input, captures each window and provides indicators for these captures on the display, allowing users to interact with them directly without additional editing steps.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If full-screen capture is used in multi-window environment, then the capture function is available, but the user must edit the captured image and load it into application, increasing operation complexity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecapture operation convenienceVSAvoidimage editing and loading process

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the full-screen capture into individual window captures by detecting window boundaries and capturing each window separately. This allows users to capture specific windows without editing full-screen images, directly resolving the contradiction between capture availability and operation convenience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a window boundary detection mechanism as an intermediary between the capture function and the display content. This intermediary automatically identifies and isolates individual windows, eliminating the need for manual editing and loading operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multi-window display is implemented, then display functionality is enhanced, but capturing individual window images becomes cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay functionalityVSAvoidindividual window capture

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary window boundary detection and identification before capture operation. By pre-processing the display to identify individual window regions, the system enables direct capture of specific windows without requiring users to perform additional editing or selection actions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If full-screen capture is captured, then the capture function works, but additional editing and loading steps are required, increasing time consumption

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecapture efficiencyVSAvoidediting and loading time

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts individual window images from the full-screen capture by detecting window boundaries and isolating each window as a separate capture target. This extraction eliminates the need for subsequent editing and loading steps, directly improving productivity while reducing time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentEP4138037B1Multi-window image capturing method and electronic device therefor

Publication Date: 2026.04.15 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

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AI summary

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, at least one processor, and a memory connected to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to display a first window and a second window on the display, capture the first window and the second window if a specified input is received, and display a first indicator corresponding to a captured image of the first window and a second indicator corresponding to a captured image of the second window on the display.