Effects applied to images in a browser

• US 8,245,123 B2
• Filed: 11/18/2009
• Issued: 08/14/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Hertzfeld, Andrew, Sites, Richard L., Herf, Michael B., Rosenstein, Justin, Irani, Lilly Christine
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US12/621,327
• Publication Number:
  US 20100110104A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 Days
• Field of Search: 715/201, 715/209, 715/731, 382/254, 382/276
• US Class Current: 715/201
• 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 in a browser. One method includes receiving crop data at a server including information defining a crop size and location associated with a cropping operation to be applied to an image in accordance with user instructions received at a client device and transmitting from the server to the client device a modified image, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and being cropped in accordance with the crop data.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving crop data at a server including information defining a crop size and location associated with a cropping operation to be applied to an image in accordance with user instructions received at a client device; and

transmitting from the server to the client device a modified image, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and being cropped in accordance with the crop data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the crop data defines a crop layer including a position and size of an associated crop box and the method further includes combining the crop layer with the image.

3. A method comprising:

providing first image data, second image data and effect data to a server, the first image data identifying a first image to apply an effect to, second image data identifying a second image to blend with the first image and effect data including information defining the effect and a blend amount; and

transmitting a modified image to a client device after receiving the effect data, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and with an effect applied in accordance with the effect data.

4. The method of claim 3 where the effect is brightness and the second image is an image that is substantially white or the color is white.

5. The method of claim 3 where the effect is darkness and the second image is substantially black or the color is black.

6. The method of claim 3 where the effect combines two distinct images and where the effect data defines an opacity of the second image to be used in the blend.

7. The method of claim 3 where the effect is color desaturation and the second image is a color desaturated representation of the image.

8. The method of claim 3 further comprising identifying a grayscale image associated with the second image and providing the grayscale image to the client device as the second image.

9. The method of claim 3 where the effect is sharpness and the second image is a sharpened version of the image.

10. The method of claim 9 where the effect is enhancement and the second image is an enhanced version of the image.

11. A method comprising:

receiving effect data at a server including information defining an effect and a blend amount associated with an effect to be applied to an image in accordance with user instructions received by a client device providing an image in a browser, the browser executing on a client device; and

transmitting a modified image at the browser after providing the effect data, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and with an effect applied to the image in accordance with the effect data.

12. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving crop data at a server including information defining a crop size and location associated with a cropping operation to be applied to an image in accordance with user instructions received at a client device; and

means for transmitting from the server to the client device a modified image, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and being cropped in accordance with the crop data.

13. An apparatus comprising:

means for providing first image data, second image data and effect data to a server, the first image data identifying a first image to apply an effect to, second image data identifying a second image to blend with the first image and effect data including information defining the effect and a blend amount; and

means for transmitting a modified image to a client device after receiving the effect data, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and with an effect applied in accordance with the effect data.

14. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving effect data at a server including information defining an effect and a blend amount associated with an effect to be applied to an image in accordance with user instructions received by a client device providing an image in a browser, the browser executing on a client device; and

means for transmitting a modified image at the browser after providing the effect data, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and with an effect applied to the image in accordance with the effect data.

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

receive crop data at a server including information defining a crop size and location associated with a cropping operation to be applied to an image in accordance with user instructions received at a client device; and

transmit from the server to the client device a modified image, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and being cropped in accordance with the crop data.

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

provide first image data, second image data and effect data to a server, the first image data identifying a first image to apply an effect to, second image data identifying a second image to blend with the first image and effect data including information defining the effect and a blend amount; and

transmit a modified image to a client device after receiving the effect data, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and with an effect applied in accordance with the effect data.

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

receive effect data at a server including information defining an effect and a blend amount associated with an effect to be applied to an image in accordance with user instructions received by a client device providing an image in a browser, the browser executing on a client device; and

transmit a modified image at the browser after providing the effect data, the modified image having a uniform resource locator (URL) and with an effect applied to the image in accordance with the effect data.

18. A method comprising:

receiving at a server information identifying an image and a unique identifier defining an effect to be applied to the image in accordance with user input received at a client device, the unique identifier being of the form of a uniform resource locator (URL); and

after receiving a request from a client device for a modified image, the request including the URL, transmitting the modified image to a requesting device, the modified image with the effect applied to the image.

19. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving at a server information identifying an image and a unique identifier defining an effect to be applied to the image in accordance with user input received at a client device, wherein the unique identifier is of the form of a uniform resource locator (URL); and

means for transmitting a modified image after receiving a request from a client device for the modified image, the request including the URL, the modified image with the effect applied to the image.

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

receive at a server information identifying an image and a unique identifier defining an effect to be applied to the image in accordance with user input received at a client device, wherein the unique identifier is of the form of a uniform resource locator (URL); and

after receiving a request from a client device for a modified image, the request including the URL, transmit the modified image to a requesting device, the modified image with the effect applied to the image.