Generating multiple digital images with changed aspect ratio

• US 9,142,052 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 09/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Priceline.com LLC (Booking Holdings, Inc., fka Priceline Group Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Priceline Com Incorporated (Booking Holdings, Inc., fka Priceline Group Inc.)
• Inventors: Caine, John, Taylor, Jonathan
• Primary Examiner(s): Liu, Li
• Application Number:
  US13/833,680
• Time in Patent Office: 921 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0442 Handling or displaying different aspect ratios, or changing the aspect ratio
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0492 Change of orientation of the displayed image, e.g. upside-down, mirrored

Abstract

In an embodiment, a data processing method comprises receiving and storing one or more original graphic image files; for each particular original graphic image file among the graphic image files: determining a first aspect ratio of the particular original graphic image file; determining whether the first aspect ratio is wider, taller, or identical to a specified second aspect ratio associated with one or more target image files; creating and storing the one or more target image files each having the second aspect ratio, by re-sampling the particular original graphic image file to match a first dimension of the one or more target image files, and selectively cropping one or more portions of the particular original graphic image file to form the one or more target image files having the second aspect ratio; wherein the method is performed using one or more computing devices.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

at a computer device, receiving and storing a plurality of original graphic image files each received from a different source and each having a different original aspect ratio that is different than a single specified second aspect ratio to which all the original graphic image files need to be transformed;

for each particular original graphic image file among the graphic image files;

determining a first aspect ratio of that particular original graphic image file;

determining whether the first aspect ratio is wider, taller, or identical to the second aspect ratio to be used with a plurality of target image files;

creating and storing a copy of the particular original graphic image file as one of the plurality of target image files using the second aspect ratio, by;

using the computer device, automatically determining whether the first aspect ratio is wider than the second aspect ratio, and if so, using the computer device automatically re-sampling the particular original graphic image file to match a first dimension of the one or more target image files, and using the computer device automatically selectively cropping one or more left or right portions of the particular original graphic image file to form the one or more target image files having the second aspect ratio;

using the computer device, automatically determining whether the first aspect ratio is taller than the second aspect ratio, and if so, using the computer device automatically re-sampling the particular original graphic image file to match a second dimension of the one or more target image files, and using the computer device automatically selectively cropping a top portion of the particular original graphic image file to form the one or more target image files having the second aspect ratio;

wherein the method is performed using one or more computing devices.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the selectively cropping comprises, when the first aspect ratio is wider than the second aspect ratio, re-sampling the particular original graphic image to a height of the one or more target image files while preserving the first aspect ratio, and cropping equal left and right portions of the particular original graphic image file to achieve the second aspect ratio.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selectively cropping comprises, when the first aspect ratio is taller than the second aspect ratio, re-sampling the particular original graphic image to a width of the one or more target image files while preserving the first aspect ratio, and cropping a top portion of the particular original graphic image file to achieve the second aspect ratio.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing the one or more target image files to a first computer program application configured for a mobile computing device and providing the original graphic image file to a second computer program application that is configured for a non-mobile computing device.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the original graphic image files and the one or more target image files are for physical properties.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the original graphic image files and the one or more target image files are for hotels.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the original graphic image file comprises a first image resolution that is lower than a second image resolution of the one or more target image files.

8. The method of claim 1 comprising repeating the determining, creating and storing for two or more target image files, wherein each of the two or more target image files has different dimensions in pixels than all others of the two or more target image files, wherein each of the two or more target image files has the second aspect ratio.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a second original graphic image file having a third aspect ratio that equals the second aspect ratio of the one or more target image files;

creating and storing the one or more target image files each having the second aspect ratio by re-sampling the second original graphic image file without selectively cropping.

10. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions which, when executed by one or more computing devices, cause performing:

at a computer device, receiving and storing a plurality of original graphic image files each received from a different source and each having a different original aspect ratio that is different than a single specified second aspect ratio to which all the original graphic image files need to be transformed;

for each particular original graphic image file among the graphic image files;

determining a first aspect ratio of that particular original graphic image file;

determining whether the first aspect ratio is wider, taller, or identical to the second aspect ratio to be used with a plurality of target image files;

creating and storing a copy of the particular original graphic image file as one of the plurality of target image files using the second aspect ratio, by;

using the computer device, automatically determining whether the first aspect ratio is wider than the second aspect ratio, and if so, using the computer device automatically re-sampling the particular original graphic image file to match a first dimension of the one or more target image files, and using the computer device automatically selectively cropping one or more left or right portions of the particular original graphic image file to form the one or more target image files having the second aspect ratio;

using the computer device, automatically determining whether the first aspect ratio is taller than the second aspect ratio, and if so, using the computer device automatically re-sampling the particular original graphic image file to match a second dimension of the one or more target image files, and using the computer device automatically selectively cropping a top portion of the particular original graphic image file to form the one or more target image files having the second aspect ratio.

11. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10, wherein the instructions which when performed cause selectively cropping comprise instructions which when performed cause, when the first aspect ratio is wider than the second aspect ratio, re-sampling the particular original graphic image to a height of the one or more target image files while preserving the first aspect ratio, and cropping equal left and right portions of the particular original graphic image file to achieve the second aspect ratio.

12. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10, wherein the instructions which when performed cause selectively cropping comprise instructions which when performed cause, when the first aspect ratio is taller than the second aspect ratio, re-sampling the particular original graphic image to a width of the one or more target image files while preserving the first aspect ratio, and cropping a top portion of the particular original graphic image file to achieve the second aspect ratio.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10, further comprising instructions which when performed cause providing the one or more target image files to a first computer program application configured for a mobile computing device and providing the original graphic image file to a second computer program application that is configured for a non-mobile computing device.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 wherein the original graphic image files and the one or more target image files are for physical properties.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 wherein the original graphic image files and the one or more target image files are for hotels.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 wherein the original graphic image file comprises a first image resolution that is lower than a second image resolution of the one or more target image files.

17. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 comprising instructions which when performed cause repeating the determining, creating and storing for two or more target image files, wherein each of the two or more target image files has different dimensions in pixels than all others of the two or more target image files, wherein each of the two or more target image files has the second aspect ratio.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media of claim 10 further comprising instructions which when performed cause:

receiving a second original graphic image file having a third aspect ratio that equals the second aspect ratio of the one or more target image files;

creating and storing the one or more target image files each having the second aspect ratio by re-sampling the second original graphic image file without selectively cropping.