US 10,319,126 B2Granted

Ribbon to quick access toolbar icon conversion

AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC

InventorsElie Samuel Javice, Navneet Singh Kambo, Han-Yi Shaw

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Abstract

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for converting a color icon into a glyph. In one aspect, a color icon associated with an application may be identified. The color icon may be converted to a dilated icon using a dilation function. A color edge only icon may be created using the color icon and the dilated icon. The color edge only icon may be converted to a gray edge only icon. An intensity of the gray edge only icon may be reduced to create a clipping edge only icon. The color icon may be converted to an alpha channel icon using an alpha channel. A dark glyph may be created using the clipping edge only icon and the alpha channel icon. A final glyph may be created by clipping an alpha value from and adding a constant value to the dark glyph.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;
and
program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to at least:
identify a color icon associated with an application, where the color icon is in a first portion of the application, and where the color icon is a first size corresponding to the first portion of the application;
scale the color icon to a first final glyph having a first level of precision corresponding to the color icon by executing a first icon conversion process, where the first final glyph is a second size, and where the first icon conversion process includes at least:
applying a dilation function to the color icon to convert the color icon to a dilated icon;
creating a color edge only icon using the color icon and the dilated icon;
converting the color edge only icon to a gray edge only icon;
reducing an intensity of the gray edge only icon to create a clipping edge only icon;
converting the color icon to an alpha channel icon using an alpha channel;
creating a first dark glyph by subtracting the clipping edge only icon from the alpha channel icon;
inverting the first dark glyph to create a first light glyph;
and
creating the first final glyph by clipping one or more alpha values from the first light glyph and adding a constant value to the first light glyph, where the first final glyph is in a second portion of the application;
and
scale the color icon to a second final glyph having a second level of precision corresponding to the color icon by executing a second icon conversion process, where the second icon conversion process includes at least:
creating a second dark glyph by subtracting the gray edge only icon from the alpha channel icon;
and
creating the second final glyph by inverting the second dark glyph to a second light glyph.

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A computing apparatus comprising:

one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media;
and
an application embodied at least in part in program instructions stored on the one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media and comprising:
a file in a user interface for displaying a plurality of color icons and a plurality of final glyphs;
a ribbon within the file in the user interface through which to display the plurality of color icons;
and
a quick access toolbar within the file in the user interface through which to, in response to converting the plurality of color icons into the plurality of final glyphs, display the plurality of final glyphs;
wherein converting the plurality of color icons into the plurality of final glyphs comprises for each color icon of the plurality of color icons scaling the color icon to a first final glyph having a first level of precision corresponding to the color icon by executing a first icon conversion process, where the first icon conversion process includes at least:
applying a dilation function to the color icon to convert the color icon to a dilated icon;
creating a color edge only icon using the color icon and the dilated icon;
converting the color edge only icon to a gray edge only icon;
reducing an intensity of the gray edge only icon to create a clipping edge only icon;
converting the color icon to an alpha channel icon using an alpha channel;
creating a dark glyph by subtracting the clipping edge only icon from the alpha channel icon;
creating the first final glyph by clipping an alpha value from the dark glyph and adding a constant value to the dark glyph;
and
scaling the color icon to a second final glyph having a second level of precision corresponding to the color icon by executing a second icon conversion process, where the second icon conversion process includes at least:
inverting the dark glyph to create a light glyph;
and
creating a second final glyph by clipping an alpha value from the light glyph and adding a constant value to the light glyph.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/238,542Filed 16 Aug 2016
Published: US 2018/0053325 A122 Feb 2018
Granted: 11 Jun 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06T 11/60
Two-dimensional [2D] image generation: creating or editing images; Combining images with text
G06F 3/04817
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06T 2200/24
Indexing scheme for image data processing or generation, in general: involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
G06T
Image data processing or generation, in general

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