Smart Capture Method for Wearable Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional wearable devices face inconvenience in capturing multiple screens due to their limited size, requiring repeated operations and often capturing unnecessary information, which leads to lengthy and inconvenient image generation.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a processor capable of receiving a smart capture request to capture multiple screens, including both displayed and non-displayed screens, and generate a smart capture image by excluding unnecessary information, thereby simplifying the process and improving user convenience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a capture operation is performed for each of multiple screens on a wearable device, then each screen can be captured individually, but the operation becomes inconvenient and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecapture completenessVSAvoidoperation convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple separate capture operations into a single unified capture operation. The processor captures multiple screens (currently displayed and non-displayed) simultaneously through one capture action, eliminating the need for repeated operations and significantly improving user convenience while maintaining complete capture coverage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Loss of information

If all information from multiple screens is captured, then complete information is obtained, but unnecessary information is included and the generated image becomes very long requiring separate editing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidimage processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and excludes unnecessary information from the captured screens. The processor identifies and removes personal information, sensitive data, and irrelevant content from the multiple screens before generating the final capture image, delivering a concise and clean result that requires no additional editing by the user

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11803294B2Electronic device and operation method of electronic device performing capture function
Publication Date: 2023.10.31 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device includes a display; and a processor operatively connected to the display, wherein the processor is configured to receive, from a user, a smart capture request for capturing a plurality of screens including a screen of an application being displayed on the display and a screen of an application not being displayed on the display, to smart capture the plurality of screens according to the request, and to generate a smart capture image based on the plurality of captured screens.