Samsung Wins Patent for AI-Powered Wallpaper Feature Based on Time of Day, Weather

Samsung is likely to be growing a brand new function for its units which may tweak the wallpaper primarily based on the present climate info, in keeping with a patent just lately granted to the corporate. The purported function is claimed to leverage generative synthetic intelligence (AI) to change the present wallpaper and add an overlay over the person interface (UI), in step with the time of day and climate circumstances — be it foggy, wet, sunny or snowy. The patent suggests it might additionally push out alerts like ‘carry an umbrella’, in case of a drastic change in climate.

Samsung’s AI-Powered Climate Function

A patent filed on the US Patent and Trademark Workplace and granted to Samsung Electronics on January 2 describes a way for acquiring a number of parts — an unique picture designated as a background display screen, a pre-defined immediate primarily based on the time of day and climate info, context info, and show space of a person interface (UI) object. It’s then stated to use these parts by inputting them right into a generative AI mannequin to generate a modified picture similar to the context info. The modified picture and UI object are then displayed as a background display screen, with the time of day and climate circumstances showing as an overlay (FIG 6A).

Time of Day and Climate Adjustments within the Modified Picture
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The generative AI mannequin is claimed to establish the areas within the wallpaper the place adjustments primarily based on pre-defined prompts will be utilized. As per the patent, it’s educated on a dataset which is fined-tuned for a base mannequin and the generative mannequin.

Aside from modifications associated to the time of day and climate, the function can also be claimed to show differences due to the season (FIG 17).

Function’s Skill to Show Seasonal Adjustments
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The patent suggests it might leverage an instruction-based mannequin to show the unique picture into its modified variant. Additional, the function is claimed to have the aptitude of changing the picture variation into video variation, utilizing an image-to-video mannequin. The person might be able to apply the modified picture as the house display screen or lock display screen wallpaper.