Creating Images for Displaying or Printing on Low-Contrast Background
AssigneeVistaprint Schweiz GmbH
InventorsJay T. Moody, Shawn M. Mears, Terence M. Tirella, Mark P. LaRosa
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Abstract
Techniques for automatically adding special effects to an image to be overlaid on a low-contrast background are presented. A stroke or an intervening layer of a color contrasting with the background color is automatically added to provide a contrasting color around the edges of visible image content in an image container of an electronic document. The technique may be applied to entire libraries of images to generate variant images that are visually perceptible when displayed or printed on low-contrast background colors.
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A computer-implemented method for adding a contrasting effect around image content in an image container of an electronic document, the image container characterized by a height dimension and a width dimension, the image container comprising one or more visible content layers and a background layer, the background layer characterized by a background color and the one or more visible content layers comprising image content defined by visible content edges, the method comprising:
- determining the visible content edges of the image content;
- automatically inserting, by one or more processors, an intervening layer between the one or more visible content layers and the background layer in the image container,
- generating, by one or more processors, a visible object on the intervening layer, the object characterized by an object color which contrasts with the background color, and the object positioned on the intervening layer such that at least a first portion of the object remains visible and at least a second portion of the object is covered by the visible image content on at least one of the visible content layers.
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