Saliency-preserving distinctive low-footprint photograph aging effects
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsCatalin Negrila, John Gabriel D'Angelo, Allison Light, David Lee
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Abstract
Technologies for modifying a digital image to take on the appearance of an antique image. Such modifying is typically based on generating and rendering various effects that are blended with the input image, such as color transformation, simulating film grain, dust, fibers, tears, and vintage borders. Such effects may be rendered to various layers that are overlaid on a color transformed image resulting in what appears to be an antique image.
Claims20
A method performed on a computing device., the method comprising:
- projecting, by the computing device, a repeller point at a location on an effect layer where the location of the repeller point corresponds to a location of a salient feature in an image;
- rendering a film effect on the effect layer, where the rendering comprises positioning the rendered film effect at a random location on the effect layer;
- blending, in response to the generating, the effect layer with the image resulting in a final image.
A computing device comprising:
- memory;
- a processor coupled to the memory and via which the computing device projects a repeller point at a location on an effect layer, where the location of the repeller point correspond to a location of a salient feature in an image;
- a film effects module implemented at least in part by the processor and configured to render a film effect on the effect layer, where the rendered film effect is positioned at a random location on the effect layer;
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- the processor via which the computing device blends the effect layer with the image resulting in a final image.
At least one computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform actions comprising:
- projecting, by the computing device, a repeller point at a location on an effect layer where the location of the repeller point corresponds to a location of a salient feature in an image;
- rendering a film effect on the effect layer, where the rendering comprises positioning the rendered film effect at a random location on the effect layer;
- blending, in response to the generating, the effect layer with the image resulting in a final image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.