Electronic Device Image Processing for On-Demand Multi-Degradation Correction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electronic devices require user intervention or idle state to detect and improve image degradations, and often fail to address multiple degradations simultaneously, resulting in suboptimal image quality improvement.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a processor that detects and improves multiple image degradations on demand, determining degradation conditions and criteria for improvement, and displays images with either full or partial correction based on satisfied criteria.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the electronic device waits for idle state to perform degradation improvement, then power consumption is reduced, but image quality improvement is delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage quality improvementVSAvoidtime delay
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs degradation detection and improvement actions in advance during idle states, so that when the user requests image quality improvement, the processing is already complete or can be resumed immediately. This preliminary action eliminates the need to wait for idle states during active use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts its operation mode based on device state (idle vs. active) and user requests. It can switch between background processing during idle states and immediate processing during active states, providing flexible timing that resolves the contradiction between power saving and immediate service.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If the electronic device processes only one degradation at a time, then processing complexity is reduced, but image quality improvement is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage quality improvementVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The degradation improvement process is segmented into multiple independent processing stages, each handling a specific degradation type. The system can process multiple degradations in parallel across different stages, improving overall effectiveness without overwhelming complexity in any single stage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial improvements for each degradation individually, then combines these partial results to achieve comprehensive improvement. This approach allows the system to handle multiple degradations effectively by treating them as separate manageable tasks rather than a single complex problem.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Measurement precision

If the electronic device requires user manual manipulation to select images for enhancement, then processing accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage selection accuracyVSAvoiduser operation convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects degradations and identifies images that need enhancement without requiring user selection. It self-determines which images require processing and applies appropriate improvements, eliminating the need for manual image selection while maintaining processing accuracy through automated degradation detection algorithms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12462354B2Electronic device and image processing method thereof
Publication Date: 2025.11.04 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes memory for storing at least one image, a display, and at least one processor electrically connected with the memory and display, and the at least one processor may obtain a request related to a quality of a first image among the at least one image, in response to the request, determine whether detecting a plurality of degradations of the first image is completed before obtaining the request, as a result of determining, if detecting the plurality of the degradations is not completed, determine whether a degradation improvement condition is satisfied for the first image, detect the plurality of the degradations in response to satisfying the degradation improvement condition, determine whether a criterion for improving the plurality of the degradations is satisfied, in response to satisfying the criterion, display on the display a second image in which degradation improvement is performed.