Finding and structuring images based on a color search

• US 8,699,826 B2
• Filed: 03/21/2011
• Issued: 04/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Remedios, Irvin Jude Francis
• Primary Examiner(s): Bella, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): HEIDEMANN, JASON E
• Application Number:
  US13/052,642
• Publication Number:
  US 20110170770A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,121 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 382/305
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5838 using colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

Displaying objects from a search is disclosed, including receiving a search color, using a processor to search through a collection of one or more objects to obtain a resulting set of one or more objects based at least in part on the search color, determining, for each of the resulting set of objects, a display parameter based at least in part on an amount of the search color in the object, and displaying the resulting set of objects in a collage based at least in part on the display parameters, wherein the objects are sized and placed such that they substantially fill a predefined collage area.

Claims

1. A system, including:

a processor; and

a memory coupled with the processor and having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

receiving a search color;

searching through a collection of objects to identify a set of objects, the searching based at least in part on the search color;

determining, for each object in the set of objects, a display parameter, the determining based at least in part on a ratio of the number of pixels in the object within a range of colors associated with the search color to the total number of pixels in the object; and

displaying each object in the set of objects in a collage having a predefined area, the displaying based at least in part on the respective display parameter, wherein the displaying comprises sizing and placing the objects in the collage such that the objects substantially fill the predefined area.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the predefined collage area has one or more of a rectangular shape and an ovular shape.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein at least one object in the set of objects is resized in order to fit the at least one object into a space in the collage.

4. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein objects placed along edges of the collage are aligned with respect to an edge of the collage.

5. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein objects placed in an interior space of the collage are not aligned.

6. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the objects in the collage are placed to minimize gaps between each object.

7. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the collection of objects includes one or more images and video files.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the display parameter includes one or more of a size of an image, an order in which an object is to be displayed, and a location where an object is to be displayed.

9. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the receiving the search color includes receiving one or more of a set of colors and a color scheme comprising a plurality of colors.

10. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining is based at least in part on a color histogram associated with at least one of the objects in the set of objects.

11. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the determining is based at least in part on a number of pixels associated with the search color in at least one of the objects in the set of objects.

12. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving an exclusion color; and

excluding objects from the set of objects, the excluding based at least in part on the exclusion color.

13. A computer program product, embodied in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon, instructions, that if executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving a search color;

receiving an exclusion color;

searching through a collection of objects to identify a set of objects, the searching based at least in part on the search color;

excluding objects from the set of objects based at least in part on the exclusion color;

determining, for each object in the set of objects, a display parameter, the determining based at least in part on a ratio of a number of pixels in the object within a range of colors associated with the search color to a total number of pixels in the object; and

displaying each object in the set of objects in a collage, the displaying based at least in part on the respective display parameter.

14. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein at least one object is resized in order to fit the at least one object into a space in the collage.

15. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein objects along edges of the collage are aligned with respect to an edge of the collage.

16. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein the display parameter includes one or more of a size of an image and a location where an object is to be displayed.

17. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein the determining is based at least in part on a color histogram associated with at least one object in the set of objects.

18. The computer program product as recited in claim 13, wherein determining is based at least in part on a number of pixels associated with the search color in at least one object in the set of objects.

19. A computer implemented method, including:

receiving, at a computing device, a search color;

searching, by the computing device, through a collection of objects to identify a set of objects, the searching based at least in part on the search color;

determining, for each of the objects in the set of objects, a display parameter, the determining based at least in part on a ratio of the number of pixels in the object within a range of colors associated with the search color to a total number of pixels in the object; and

displaying each object in the set of objects in a collage having a predefined area, the displaying based at least in part on the respective display parameter, wherein the displaying comprises resizing and placing the objects such that they substantially fill the predefined area.

20. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the predefined collage area has a substantially rectangular shape.

21. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein at least one object is resized in order to fit the at least one object into a space in the collage.

22. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein objects along edges of the collage are aligned with respect to an edge of the collage.

23. The method as recited in claim 19, further including:

receiving an exclusion color; and

excluding objects from the set of objects, the excluding based at least in part on the exclusion color.