SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING EDITED IMAGES USING EMBEDDED PLUG-IN

• US 20140071045A1
• Filed: 09/13/2013
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Aviary, Inc. (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Muchnick, Abraham Moshe, Derdik, Israel
• Granted Patent: US 10,061,491 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• 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

Disclosed is a cross-platform image editor configured with image editing tools and that is integrated with a software application and operable on a user computing device. A low-res version of a high-res image stored in an image library is displayed, and a user selection of at least one image editing tool and at least one associated parameter is received. The low-res version is modified accordingly. Without human user intervention the high resolution image is processed by executing at least one instruction respectively associated with each of the at least one selected image editing tools using the at least one parameter. The modified high resolution image is output.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

loading, in a cross-platform image editor that is integrated with a software application and that is operating on a user computing device, a low resolution version of a high resolution image stored in an image library, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configured with image editing tools;

displaying, with the user computing device, the low resolution version of the high resolution image;

receiving, by the user computing device operating the software application and the integrated cross-platform image editor, a user selection of at least one of the respective image editing tools and at least one parameter associated with the at least one tool;

processing, with the user computing device, to modify the low resolution version of the image by executing at least one instruction respectively associated with each of the at least one selected image editing tools using the at least one parameter;

displaying, with the user computing device, the low resolution version of the image modified in view of the user selection;

loading, without human user intervention in the cross-platform image editor that is operating on the user computing device or in an image editor operating on a second computing device, the high resolution image;

processing, with the user computing device or the second computing device, to modify the high resolution image by executing at least one instruction respectively associated with each of the at least one selected image editing tools using the at least one parameter; and

outputting, with the user computing device or the second computing device, the modified high resolution image.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying, without human user intervention and with the user computing device or the second computing device, at least one other high resolution image in the image library;

displaying, with the user computing device, a respective low resolution version of each of the at least one other high resolution image;

displaying, with the user computing device, at least one prompt to modify at least one of the respective low resolution version of each of the at least one other high resolution image using the at least one parameter;

processing, with the user computing device or the second computing device, and in response to a user reply to the at least one prompt, to modify at least one of the at least one other high resolution image.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of identifying the at least one other high resolution image is made as a function of one or more of:

GPS information associated with the image, a date of the image, and a time of the image.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of identifying the at least one other high resolution image includes identifying at least a portion of the image and comparing the at least portion to at least a portion of the at least one other high resolution image.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the portion of the image corresponds to the portion of the at least one other high resolution image.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising selecting, without user intervention, a respective low resolution version of each of the at least one other high resolution image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the image editing tools include one or more of crop, texture, rotation, stickers, sharpness, blemish, sharpen, red-eye removal, text, brightness, contrast, frames and saturation.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configured in at least two versions, wherein a first version of the cross-platform image editor is configured with a first set of image editing tools, and a second version of the cross-platform image editor is configured with a second set of image editing tools, wherein the first set includes more image editing tools than the second set.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising tracking distribution of the respective versions of the cross-platform image editor.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the cross-platform image editor is operable within mobile computing platforms, Internet web site platforms, and desktop computing platforms.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configurable via a software development kit.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configured as a plug-in to the software application.

17. The system of claim 6, wherein the portion of the image corresponds to the portion of the at least one other high resolution image.

24. The system of claim 1, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configured as a plug-in to the software application.

13. A system, comprising:

a cross-platform image editor that is integrated with a software application and that is operating on a user computing device, configured to load a low resolution version of a high resolution image stored in an image library, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configured with image editing tools;

the user computing device being configured to;

display the low resolution version of the high resolution image;

receive a user selection of at least one of the respective image editing tools and at least one parameter associated with the at least one tool;

process to modify the low resolution version of the image by executing at least one instruction respectively associated with each of the at least one selected image editing tools using the at least one parameter; and

display the low resolution version of the image modified in view of the user selection;

wherein the user computing device and/or a second computing device is further configured to;

load, the high resolution image;

process to modify the high resolution image by executing at least one instruction respectively associated with each of the at least one selected image editing tools using the at least one parameter; and

output the modified high resolution image.

14. The system of claim 13,

wherein the user computing device or the second computing device is further configured to:

identify, without human user intervention, at least one other high resolution image in the image library;

further wherein the user computing device is further configured to;

display a respective low resolution version of each of the at least one other high resolution image;

display at least one prompt to modify at least one of the respective low resolution version of each of the at least one other high resolution image using the at least one parameter; and

further wherein the user computing device or the second computing device is further configured to;

process, in response to a user reply to the at least one prompt, to modify at least one of the at least one other high resolution image.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the step of identifying the at least one other high resolution image is made as a function of one or more of:

GPS information associated with the image, a date of the image, and a time of the image.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the step of identifying the at least one other high resolution image includes identifying at least a portion of the image and comparing the at least portion to at least a portion of the at least one other high resolution image.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the user computing device is further configured to:

select, without user intervention, a respective low resolution version of each of the at least one other high resolution image.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the image editing tools include one or more of crop, texture, rotation, stickers, sharpness, blemish, sharpen, red-eye removal, text, brightness, contrast, frames and saturation.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configured in at least two versions, wherein a first version of the cross-platform image editor is configured with a first set of image editing tools, and a second version of the cross-platform image editor is configured with a second set of image editing tools, wherein the first set includes more image editing tools than the second set.

21. The system of claim 20, further comprising tracking distribution of the respective versions of the cross-platform image editor.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein the cross-platform image editor is operable within mobile computing platforms, Internet web site platforms, and desktop computing platforms.

23. The system of claim 13, wherein the cross-platform image editor is configurable via a software development kit.