Area-dependent image enhancement
AssigneeAdobe Inc.
InventorsZhe Lin, Byungmoon Kim, Yuan Gao
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Abstract
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for area-dependent image enhancement. These techniques are capable of enabling selection, through a touch-enabled mobile-device display, of an area of a photographic image through movement of a spatially-variable implement, such as brush icon moved over the image. Selected areas can be enhanced differently than other areas, such as to apply sharpening to the selected area and blurring to a non-selected area.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device through movement of a spatially-variable implement over an image, an area over the image;
- receiving, by the computing device through selection of an image-enhancement selectable control, a parameter value for an enhancement of an appearance of the image at the area;
- altering, by the computing device based on the parameter value selected through the image-enhancement selectable control, the appearance of the image at the area using the enhancement;
- recording, by the computing device, a history of enhancements associated with the image, the history including the enhancement, the area, and the parameter value;
- receiving, by the computing device, an input to select the enhancement from the history of enhancements;
- receiving, by the computing device, an alteration input to alter the area or the parameter value of the enhancement based on the input;
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- altering, by the computing device, the area or the parameter value of the enhancement based on the alteration input through use of the history.
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by a computing device, selection of an area of an image to enhance with an enhancement;
- applying, by the computing device to a parameter map corresponding to the image, a parameter value to a parameter map area corresponding to the area of the image;
- enhancing, by the computing device, an appearance of the area of the image by applying the parameter value of the parameter map area to the area of the image without permanently altering the image, itself;
- recording, by the computing device, a history associated with the parameter map, the history indicating the enhancement, the area, and the parameter value;
- receiving, by the computing device, an input to select the enhancement from the history;
- receiving, by the computing device, an alteration input to alter the parameter value or the area of the enhancement;
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- altering, by the computing device, the appearance of the image using the enhancement based on the alteration input through use of the history and the parameter map.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having instructions stored thereon that, responsive to execution by one or more computer processors, perform operations comprising:
- providing an image-enhancement selectable control through a user interface presented on a display, the image-enhancement selectable control having multiple, selectable parameter values for an enhancement to an area of an image;
- receiving, through selection of the image-enhancement selectable control, a selected one of the multiple selectable parameters values for the enhancement to the area of the image;
- responsive to the selection of the selected parameter value, enhancing the area of the image based on the selected parameter value;
- recording a history associated with the image, the history indicating the enhancement, the parameter value, and the area;
- receiving an input to select the enhancement from the history;
- receiving an alteration input to alter the area or the parameter value of the enhancement;
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- altering the area or the parameter value of the selected enhancement based on the alteration input through use of the history.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.