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US 8,139,083 B2Granted
Custom image frames
AssigneeSony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
InventorDavid de Leon
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Abstract
A method includes retrieving an image stored on a device, creating a mask in a portion of the image, and creating a custom image frame from the image and the mask.
Claims13
A method comprising:
- capturing, by a first device, a first image;
- accepting, by the first device, a first user input that specifies a point within the first image;
- defining, by the first device, a first mask in an irregular portion of the first image based on the first user input received at the device and without additional input from a user associated with the device, wherein the first user input specifies a point within the first image, and wherein the defining further includes:
- identifying, areas of the first image that are adjacent to the specified point and that share image features, including color, with the specified point;
- forming, by the first device, a first image frame that includes the first image and the first mask;
- aligning, by the first device, a subject of a second image with the first mask in the first image frame;
- capturing, by the first device, the second image;
- and
- applying, by the first device, the second image to the first image frame, including automatically resizing and reshaping the second image, without input from the user, to conform to the second mask.
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A device comprising:
- acquiring means for acquiring a first image and a second image;
- forming means for forming a first mask in an irregular portion of the first image based on a user input received at the device and without additional input from a user associated with the device, where the user input specifies a point within the first image, and where the forming means includes:
- determining means for determining regions of the first image that are adjacent to the specified point and that share image features, including color, with the specified point, and an edge, of the irregular portion of the first image, that surrounds the determined regions and the point within the first image;
- creating means for creating a first image frame from the first image and the first mask;
- applying means for applying the second image to the first image frame, including automatically resizing and reshaping the second image, without input from a user, according to the second mask;
- and
- storing means for storing the first image frame and the second image as applied to the first image frame.
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A device comprising:
- a memory to store instructions;
- and
- a processor to execute the instructions to:
- retrieve a first image,
- create a first mask in an irregular portion of the first image based on a single user input received at the device, where the single user input specifies a point within the first image, and where the processor, when creating the first mask, is further to:
- identify areas of the first image that are adjacent to the specified point and that share image features, including color, with the specified point, and
- determine an edge of the irregular portion of the first image to include the specified point and the identified areas,
- create a first image frame from the first image and the first mask,
- capture a second image, and
- dynamically apply the second image to the first image frame, including automatically resizing and reshaping the second image, without additional input from a user, according to the first mask.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.