Electronic device and method for controlling the electronic device

• US 10,587,776 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2018
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Seong-min, Han, Heung-woo
• Primary Examiner(s): McLean, Neil R
• Application Number:
  US16/043,930
• Publication Number:
  US 20190028608A1
• Time in Patent Office: 595 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/4413 involving the use of passwords, ID codes or the like, e.g. PIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/444 to a particular document or image or part thereof
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/126 Details of normalisation or weighting functions, e.g. normalisation matrices or variable uniform quantisers

Abstract

A method for controlling an electronic device including at least one processor configured to encrypt an image and upload the encrypted image to an external server by using an artificial intelligence neural network model is provided. The method includes receiving a command to upload an image to the external server; acquiring, based on the command, a characteristic value corresponding to the image by inputting the image and a key of the electronic device into a neural network model trained to identify characteristic values based on an input image and an input key; and transmitting identification information of the image and the characteristic value to the external server.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an electronic device including at least one processor configured to encrypt an image and upload the encrypted image to an external server by using an artificial intelligence neural network model, the method comprising:

receiving a first command to upload a first image to the external server;

acquiring, based on the first command, a first characteristic value corresponding to the first image by inputting the first image and a key of the electronic device into a neural network model trained to identify characteristic values based on an input image and an input key;

transmitting identification information of the first image and the first characteristic value to the external server; and

restoring, based on a second command to download the first image from the external server, the first image by inputting the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image and the key of the electronic device into a decryption model,

wherein the key of the electronic device is one from among a password of the electronic device and identification information of the electronic device.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the key is one of a plurality of keys, and

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting version information of the key corresponding to the first image to the external server together with the identification information of the first image and the first characteristic value.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring, based on the first command, a thumbnail image corresponding to the first image;

matching and storing the thumbnail image and the identification information of the first image; and

deleting the first image.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, further comprising providing the thumbnail image based on receiving a display command to display the first image.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the external server matches and stores the identification information of the first image and the first characteristic value, compares a similarity between the first image and another image based on the first characteristic value, and classifies the first image based on the similarity.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, further comprising:

receiving a retrieval command to retrieve a second image related to a keyword;

transmitting a request to the external server requesting a search related to the keyword; and

receiving, based on the request, a second characteristic value corresponding to at least one search image related to the keyword from the external server, the at least one search image being at least one from among images classified based on the similarity comparison.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, further comprising restoring the at least one search image by inputting the second characteristic value corresponding to the at least one search image and the key of the electronic device into the decryption model trained to restore an image by using the second characteristic value corresponding to the at least one search image and the key as input data.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, based on receiving a download command to receive the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image, a request signal requesting the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image to the external server; and

receiving, based on the request signal, the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image from the external server.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the receiving comprises receiving version information of the key of the electronic device used for encrypting the first image together with the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image from the external server, and

wherein the restoring comprises restoring the first image by inputting the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image and the key of the electronic device corresponding to the version information into the decryption model.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

a communicator;

a display;

a memory; and

a processor configured to control the electronic device in electrical connection with the communicator, the display and the memory,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

implement a neural network model trained to acquire a characteristic value by using an image and a key as input data and a program for performing an operation of the electronic device,

acquire an input signal according to a first command to upload a first image to an external server,

acquire, based on the input signal, a first characteristic value corresponding to the first image by inputting the first image and the key of the electronic device into the neural network model,

control the communicator to transmit identification information of the first image and the first characteristic value to the external server, and

restore, based on a second command to download the first image from the external server, the first image by inputting the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image and the key of the electronic device into a decryption model,

wherein the key of the electronic device is one from among a password of the electronic device and identification information of the electronic device.

11. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the key is one of a plurality of keys, and

wherein the processor is further configured to control the communicator to transmit version information of the key corresponding to the first image to the external server together with the identification information of the first image and the first characteristic value.

12. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire, based on the first command, a thumbnail image corresponding to the first image,

match and store the thumbnail image and the identification information of the first image in the memory, and

delete the first image from the memory.

13. The electronic device as claimed in claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to provide the thumbnail image based on receiving a display command to display the first image.

14. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the identification information of the first image is matched with the first characteristic value in the external server, and

wherein the external server compares a similarity between the first image and another image based on the first characteristic value, and classifies the first image based on the similarity.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 14, wherein the processor is further configured to:

acquire an input signal according to a retrieval command to retrieve at least one image related to an input keyword,

control the communicator to transmit a request signal to the external server requesting a search related to the keyword to the external server, and

receive a second characteristic value corresponding to at least one search image related to the keyword from the external server through the communicator, the at least one search image being at least one from among images classified based on the similarity comparison.

16. The electronic device as claimed in claim 15, wherein the processor is further configured to:

implement the decryption model trained to restore an image by using a characteristic value and a key as input data, and

restore the at least one search image by inputting the second characteristic value corresponding to the at least one search image and the key of the electronic device into the decryption model.

17. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to:

implement the decryption model trained to restore an image by using a characteristic value and a key as input data,

control the communicator to transmit, based on a download command to receive the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image being received, a request signal requesting the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image to the external server,

receive the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image from the external server through the communicator.

18. The electronic device as claimed in claim 17, wherein version information of the key of the electronic device used for encrypting the first image is received together with the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image from the external server, and

wherein the processor is further configured to restore the first image by inputting the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image and the key of the electronic device corresponding to the version information into the decryption model.

19. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a processor of an electronic device including at least one processor to encrypt an image and upload the encrypted image to an external server by using an artificial intelligence neural network model, causes the processor to execute a method for controlling the electronic device, the method including:

receiving a first command to upload a first image to the external server;

acquiring, based on the first command, a first characteristic value corresponding to the first image by inputting the first image and a key of the electronic device into a neural network model trained to identify characteristic values based on an input image and an input key;

transmitting identification information of the first image and the first characteristic value to the external server; and

restoring, based on a second command to download the first image from the external server, the image by inputting the first characteristic value corresponding to the first image and the key of the electronic device into a decryption model,

wherein the key of the electronic device is one from among a password of the electronic device and identification information of the electronic device.