Identifying, generating, and storing cropping information for multiple crops of a digital image
AssigneeQurio Holding, Inc.
InventorsCheryl Adams, Patricia Scardino
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Abstract
A system and method are provided that allow multiple crops to be defined for a single digital image without altering the digital image. Rather than actually cropping the digital image where a portion of the digital image is lost, the present invention generates and stores cropping information defining a desired area of the digital image for each of the crops. The cropping information is stored in metadata associated with the digital image or in an associated application file.
Claims20
A method of operating a computer to define multiple crops for a digital image comprising:
- identifying, at the computer, a plurality of desired areas of the digital image, the plurality of desired areas of the digital image defining a plurality of cropped versions of the digital image wherein each one of the plurality of desired areas of the digital image defines a corresponding one of the plurality of cropped versions of the digital image;
- generating cropping information at the computer defining the plurality of desired areas;
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- storing the cropping information in association with the digital image in digital storage associated with the computer such that the cropping information defining each of the plurality of desired areas is concurrently available.
A computer readable medium implemented as an article of manufacture and storing software adapted to instruct a system to:
- identify a plurality of desired areas of a digital image, the plurality of desired areas of the digital image defining a plurality of cropped versions of the digital image wherein each one of the plurality of desired areas of the digital image defines a corresponding one of the plurality of cropped versions of the digital image;
- generate cropping information defining the plurality of desired areas;
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- store the cropping information in association with the digital image such that the cropping information defining each of the plurality of desired areas is concurrently available.
A system for defining multiple crops for a digital image comprising:
- a storage device;
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- a control system implemented in hardware and adapted to:
- identify a plurality of desired areas of the digital image, the plurality of desired areas of the digital image defining a plurality of cropped versions of the digital image wherein each one of the plurality of desired areas of the digital image defines a corresponding one of the plurality of cropped versions of the digital image;
- generate cropping information defining the plurality of desired areas;
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- store the cropping information in the storage device in association with the digital image such that the cropping information defining each of the plurality of desired areas is concurrently stored and available.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.