Adaptive contextual filtering based on observer colorblindness characteristics

• US 8,013,860 B2
• Filed: 10/05/2010
• Issued: 09/06/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zhigu Holdings Limited
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hitchcock, Gregory C., Wade, Geraldine, Matskewich, Tanya
• Primary Examiner(s): Amini; Javid A
• Application Number:
  US12/898,442
• Publication Number:
  US 20110018894A1
• Time in Patent Office: 336 Days
• Field of Search: 345/593, 345/467
• US Class Current: 345/467
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20012 Locally adaptive
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/00 Image enhancement or restoration
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 5/20 using local operators

Abstract

Selectively applying graphical filtering to characters can include the identification of observer characteristics and characteristics associated with different portions of the character. Corresponding filters can then be identified and selectively applied to the characters and, in some instances, without applying the filter to the entire character.

Claims

1. A method implemented by a computing system having a processor for selectively applying graphical filtering to a character, the method comprising:

accessing a character to be rendered;

identifying a limited portion of the character consisting of a particular typographical characteristic;

identifying an observer characteristic which identifies whether the observer has dichromatic vision;

selecting at least one filter designed to compensate for dichromatic vision;

applying the at least one filter to at least the limited portion of the character, and applying one or more other filters to one or more other typographical characteristics while refraining from applying at least one of the other filters to the entire character of the accessed character; and

displaying the character after applying the filters to the character.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the limited portion of the character is defined by a geographic zone.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the limited portion of the character is limited by a defined typographical characteristic.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the typographical characteristic and the limited portion consists of a serif, a stroke, a stem or a diagonal of the character.

5. A computer storage device comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to implement the following method:

accessing a character to be rendered;

identifying a limited portion of the character consisting of less than the entire character and being defined by a particular typographical characteristic, the particular typographical characteristic comprising one of either a serif, a stroke, a stem, a diagonal or other distinguishable characteristic that comprises less than the entire character, identifying the limited portion of the character requiring distinguishing between said serif, stroke, stem, diagonal or other distinguishable characteristic and determining whether the limited portion is either the serif, the stroke, the stem, the diagonal or the other distinguishable characteristic;

identifying an observer characteristic which identifies whether the observer has dichromatic vision;

selecting at least one filter designed to compensate for dichromatic vision;

selecting at least one other filter that has been pre-specified for a particular typographical characteristic; and

applying the at least one filter to at least the limited portion of the character, and applying one or more other filters to one or more other typographical characteristics of the character while refraining from applying the other filters to the entire character, and the other filters being applied depending on whether the particular characteristic is distinguished to be said serif, stroke, stem, diagonal, or other distinguishable characteristic.

6. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein the particular typographical characteristic comprises a serif.

7. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein the particular typographical characteristic comprises a diagonal.

8. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein the particular typographical characteristic comprises a stroke.

9. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein the particular typographical characteristic comprises a stem.

10. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein the particular typographical characteristic comprises a distance between strokes.

11. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein the particular typographical characteristic comprises a portion of the character falling within a defined geographic zone that covers only a portion of the character.

12. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein said other filters comprise a first filter and said typographic characteristic is a first typographic characteristic, the first filter being applied to the first typographic characteristic, and wherein said other filters further comprise a second filter that is applied to a second typographic characteristic of the character, and wherein the method further comprises not applying either the first filter or the second filter to the entire character.

13. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein the method includes receiving a user selection which identifies the particular characteristic.

14. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein at least one of the filters is pre-selected by human determination.

15. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein at least one of the filters is pre-specified in a filter hinting language.

16. The computer storage device of claim 15, wherein at least one of the filters is specified within the filter hinting language by human interaction

17. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein at least one of the filters includes parameters directed to models of human visual perception.

18. The computer storage device of claim 5, wherein at least one of the filters includes parameters directed to human recognition specific to a class of objects.