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Image background removal using multi-touch surface input

  • US 10,656,810 B2
  • Filed: 07/28/2014
  • Issued: 05/19/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • displaying, by a computing system, an image on a display while also projecting, by a projector, a working version of the image onto a multi-touch surface to receive a touch input;

    projecting, by the projector, an image editor interface onto the multi-touch surface, the image editor interface comprising first and second user-selectable control items;

    receiving, by the computing system, a foreground input on the multi-touch surface indicative of a foreground region within the image and a background input on the multi-touch surface indicative of a background region within the image, wherein the foreground input comprises a user selection of the first user-selectable control item of the image editor interface projected onto the multi-touch surface, and wherein the background input comprises a user selection of the second user-selectable control item of the image editor interface projected onto the multi-touch surface;

    removing, by the computing system, the background region from the image based on the foreground input and the background input;

    displaying, by the computing system, a revised image based on removing the background region from the image on the display, wherein displaying the image and displaying the revised image occur on the display simultaneously and are in addition to a display of the working version of the image projected onto the multi-touch surface; and

    rotating, responsive to a rotation user input on the image editor interface projected by the projector, the working version of the image while the revised image on the display remains in an original orientation.

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