Method and system for using color information to create special effects
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJohn Junior Boezeman, Randall Peter Eckhoff, Dennis Donald King
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Abstract
An authoring tool is enabled to create special effects on an image using a color scale. A pattern file is used to map the image to the desired effect. By assigning meaning to one or more of the colors in the color scale, an image will be produced in accordance with the pattern file and the selected colors.
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A method of creating images having special effect properties on a computer system having a display device, the method comprising the steps of:
- selecting a special effect pattern which is to be applied to an image;
- selecting the image on which the special effect pattern will be applied;
- mapping the image to the pattern file;
- and
- displaying the image on the computer system in accordance with the pattern file so as to display the image with the special effect property;
- wherein the special effect pattern is defined by a pattern file that comprises an array of values;
- wherein each value in the array of values represents a particular intensity of a selected color that is associated with a specific location in the pattern;
- and
- wherein the selected color is associated with a type of special effect property.
A system for creating images having special effect properties on a computer system having a display device, the system comprising:
- an image selection window displayed on the display device that allows a user to select an image on which a special effect may be implemented from a plurality of images;
- a plurality of pattern files that use color to define a special effect pattern, wherein each pattern file comprises an array of values and wherein each value in the array of values represents a particular intensity of a selected color that is associated with a specific location in the pattern;
- a special effect pattern window displayed on the display device that allows the user to select from the plurality of special effect patterns the special effect pattern which is to be applied to the selected image;
- a processor configured to map the selected image to the pattern file associated with the selected special effect pattern;
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- means for displaying the image on the computer system in accordance with the pattern file so as to display the image with the special effect property.
A system for creating images having special effect properties on a computer system having a display device, the system comprising:
- means for selecting a special effect pattern which is to be applied to an image;
- means for selecting the image on which the special effect pattern will be applied;
- means for mapping the image to the pattern file;
- and
- means for displaying the image on the computer system in accordance with the pattern file so as to display the image with the special effect property;
- wherein the special effect pattern is defined by a pattern file that comprises an array of values;
- wherein each value in the array of values represents a particular intensity of a selected color that is associated with a specific location in the pattern;
- and
- wherein the selected color is associated with a type of special effect property.
A computer program product recorded on a computer readable medium for creating images having special effect properties on a computer system having a display device, comprising:
- computer readable program code which selects a special effect pattern which is to be applied to an image;
- computer readable program code which selects the image on which the special effect pattern will be applied;
- computer readable program code which maps the image to the pattern file;
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- computer readable program code which displays the image on the computer system in accordance with the pattern file so as to display the image with the special effect property;
- wherein the special effect pattern is defined by a pattern file that comprises an array of values;
- wherein each value in the array of values represents a particular intensity of a selected color that is associated with a specific location in the pattern;
- and
- wherein the selected color is associated with a type of special effect property.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.