SELECTIVE IMAGE EDITING IN A BROWSER

• US 20100111406A1
• Filed: 11/18/2009
• Published: 05/06/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Rosenstein, Justin, Hertzfeld, Andrew, Sites, Richard L.
• Granted Patent: US 8,230,318 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/162
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

Methods, apparatus, computer program products and systems are provided for editing an image. One method includes receiving transformation data at a server including a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes an identification of an image and information defining a transformation to be applied to the image, and transmitting from the server to a client device a modified image after receiving the transformation data, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and being transformed in accordance with the information defining the transformation.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving transformation data at a server including a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes an identification of an image and information defining a transformation to be applied to the image; and

transmitting from the server to a client device a modified image after receiving the transformation data, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and being transformed in accordance with the information defining the transformation.

2. A method comprising:

receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) at a server identifying an image and describing an effect to be applied to the image including an area of the image to apply the effect; and

transmitting from the server to a client device a modified image after receiving the uniform resource locator URL, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and being transformed in the area of the image in accordance with the effect.

3. The method of claim 2 where the effect is a blend, the method further comprising:

blending the area with either a color or a second image, the second image or color associated with the effect;

receiving user input to define the amount of blending;

blending the first image and the second image or the color in accordance with the user input.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

receiving effect data at the server including information defining the effect, the area and the blend amount.

5. The method of claim 4 further comprising transmitting a modified image to the client device after receiving the effect data, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and with an effect applied in accordance with the effect data.

6. The method of claim 4 where applying the effect includes determining the second image based on the effect.

7. The method of claim 4 where applying the effect includes executing a script to define a blend layer including the second image and combining the blend layer with the image.

8. The method of claim 7 where combining the blend layer and the image includes determining an opacity of the blend layer.

9. The method of claim 4 where the effect is brightness and the second image is an image that is substantially white or the color is white.

10. The method of claim 4 where the effect is darkness and the second image is substantially black or the color is black.

11. The method of claim 4 where the effect is color desaturation and the second image is a color desaturated representation of the image.

12. The method of claim 4 further comprising transmitting a grayscale image from the server to the client device as the second image so as to allow the client device to blend the image and the second image.

13. The method of claim 4 where the effect is sharpness and the second image is a sharpened version of the image.

14. The method of claim 4 where the effect is enhancement and the second image is an enhanced version of the image.

15. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving transformation data at a server including a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes an identification of an image and information defining a transformation to be applied to the image; and

means for transmitting from the server to a client device a modified image after receiving the transformation data, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and being transformed in accordance with the information defining the transformation.

16. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving a uniform resource locator (URL) at a server identifying an image and describing an effect to be applied to the image including an area of the image to apply the effect; and

means for transmitting from the server to a client device a modified image after receiving the uniform resource locator URL, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and being transformed in the area of the image in accordance with the effect.

17. A computer program product stored in a computer memory device including instructions for causing a computer to:

receive transformation data at a server including a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes an identification of an image and information defining a transformation to be applied to the image; and

transmit from the server to a client device a modified image after receiving the transformation data, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and being transformed in accordance with the information defining the transformation.

18. A computer program product stored in a computer memory device including instructions for causing a computer to:

receive a uniform resource locator (URL) at a server identifying an image and describing an effect to be applied to the image including an area of the image to apply the effect; and

transmit from the server to a client device a modified image after receiving the uniform resource locator URL, the modified image having the uniform resource locator (URL) and being transformed in the area of the image in accordance with the effect.