Adjusting a digital image characteristic of an object in a digital image

• US 9,311,734 B1
• Filed: 07/24/2012
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Siddavanahalli, Vinay
• Primary Examiner(s): Tseng, Charles
• Application Number:
  US13/556,933
• Time in Patent Office: 1,358 Days
• Field of Search: 345/428, 345/642, 345660-671
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/053 Detail-in-context presentations fisheye or wide-angle transformations G06T3/047

Abstract

Methods and systems for highlighting portions of digital images. In one aspect, a digital image including an object is received. A user selection of a portion of the digital image including at least a portion of the object is received, and the selected portion of the digital image is highlighted. User selected tagging information associated with the selected portion of the digital image is received and transmitted to a computing system.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to perform operations comprising;

receiving, over a network from a user device, digital image data associated with a digital image, the digital image including an object, wherein a resolution associated with the digital image has a first resolution value, and wherein a data storage of the system stores relationship data for each user;

transmitting instructions to cause a display of the received digital image on a display of the user device;

receiving a user selection of a first portion of the digital image, the first portion of the digital image including at least a portion of the object;

in response to receiving the user selection of the first portion of the digital image, transmitting instructions to cause a display of the received digital image on the display, wherein a resolution value associated with the first portion of the displayed image is adjusted to a higher resolution value than the first resolution value, and a resolution value associated with a second portion of the displayed digital image not including the first portion is adjusted to a lower resolution value than the first resolution value;

receiving user selected tagging information associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the tagging information includes one or more tags corresponding to the first portion of the digital image;

receiving a search request including one or more keywords;

determining the first portion of the digital image based on the one or more keywords, wherein the one or more keywords correspond to the one or more tags; and

transmitting instructions to cause a display of the digital image including the adjusted digital image resolutions of the first portion and the second portion of the digital image in response to receiving the search request.

2. A computer-implemented method of tagging and searching portions of digital images displayed on a user device, the method comprising:

receiving, over a network, from a user device, digital image data associated with a digital image, the digital image including an object, and wherein a digital image resolution associated with the digital image has an image resolution value;

transmitting instructions to cause a display of the received digital image on a display of the user device;

receiving a user selection of a first portion of the digital image, wherein the first portion of the digital image includes at least a portion of the object;

receiving user selected tagging information associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the tagging information includes one or more tags corresponding to the first portion of the digital image;

receiving a search request including one or more keywords;

determining the first portion of the digital image based on the one or more keywords, wherein the one or more keywords correspond to the one or more tags;

adjusting a first digital image resolution associated with the first portion of the digital image that was determined based on the one or more keywords, including adjusting a resolution value associated with the first portion of the displayed image to a higher resolution value than the image resolution value;

adjusting a second digital image resolution associated with a second portion of the digital image not including the first portion of the digital image, including adjusting a resolution value associated with the second portion of the displayed image to a lower resolution value than the image resolution value; and

transmitting instructions to cause a display of at least a portion of the digital image including the adjusted one digital image resolutions of the first and second portions of the digital image in response to receiving the search request.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

accessing the tagging information associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the tagging information describes the first portion of the digital image that was determined based on the one or more keywords; and

transmitting instructions to cause a display of the tagging information with the first portion of the digital image that was determined based on the one or more keywords.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising adjusting one or more digital image characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the one or more digital image characteristics include at least one of digital image color, digital image contrast, and digital image brightness.

5. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

adjusting values of one or more digital image characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image; and

adjusting values of one or more digital image characteristics associated with the second portion of the digital image,

wherein the digital image characteristics associated with the first portion and the second portion include one or more of contrast, brightness, and color.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein adjusting the first digital image resolution associated with the first portion of the digital image includes replacing the first portion of the digital image with a sub-image displaying one or more objects displayed by the first portion, wherein the sub-image includes a higher resolution than the image resolution value, and wherein the sub-image is blended over the digital image.

7. The method of claim 2, further comprising accessing the digital image from an online social networking system storing the relationship data.

8. The method of claim 2, further comprising accessing the digital image from an online photo sharing system storing digital images for a plurality of users, wherein the online photo sharing system provides user interfaces for users to upload, manage and share digital images with other users.

9. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

adjusting a digital image characteristic of the digital image for the first portion of the digital image and not for the second portion of the digital image, wherein the digital image characteristic is different than the digital image resolution of the image.

10. A system comprising:

at least one computing device operably coupled to at least one memory and configured to;

receive, over a network, from a user device, digital image data associated with a digital image, the digital image including an object, and wherein a digital image resolution associated with the digital image has an image resolution value;

transmit instructions to cause a display of the received digital image on a display of the user device;

receive a user selection of a first portion of the digital image, wherein the first portion of the digital image includes at least a portion of the object;

receive user selected tagging information associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the tagging information includes one or more tags corresponding to the first portion of the digital image;

receive a search request including one or more keywords;

determine the first portion of the digital image based on the one or more keywords, wherein the one or more keywords correspond to the one or more tags;

adjust a first digital image resolution associated with the first portion of the digital image that was determined based on the one or more keywords, including adjusting a first resolution value associated with the first portion of the displayed image to a higher resolution value than the image resolution value;

adjust a second digital image resolution associated with a second portion of the digital image not including the first portion of the digital image that was determined based on the one or more keywords, wherein the second digital image resolution is adjusted to a second resolution value lower than the image resolution value; and

transmit instructions to cause a display of the digital image including the adjusted digital image resolutions of the first portion and the second portion of the digital image in response to receiving the search request.

11. The system of claim 10, the at least one computing device further being configured to adjust one or more additional digital image characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image.

12. The system of claim 11, the at least one computing device further being configured to adjust at least one additional digital image characteristic associated with the second portion of the digital image not displaying the first portion of the digital image that was determined based on the one or more keywords, wherein the at least one additional digital image characteristic is different than at least one of the one or more additional digital image-characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image.

13. The system of claim 10, the at least one computing device further being configured to adjust one or more digital image characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the one or more digital image characteristics include digital image color.

14. The system of claim 13, the at least one computing device further being configured to adjust at least one digital image characteristic associated with the second portion of the digital image not displaying the first portion of the digital image that was determined based on the one or more keywords, wherein the digital image characteristic is the same as at least one of the one or more digital image-characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image.

15. The system of claim 10, the at least one computing device further being configured to adjust one or more digital image characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the one or more digital image characteristics include at least one of digital image contrast and digital image brightness.

16. The system of claim 10, the at least one computing device further being configured to adjust one or more digital image characteristics associated with the first portion of the digital image including increasing a value of the one or more digital image characteristics.

17. The system of claim 10, wherein the second portion of the digital image displays one or more additional objects.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the at least one computing device configured to adjust the first digital image resolution associated with the first portion of the digital image includes being configured to replace the first portion of the digital image with a sub-image displaying one or more objects displayed by the first portion, wherein the sub-image includes a higher resolution than the image resolution value, and wherein the sub-image is blended over the digital image.

19. A system comprising:

at least one computing device operably coupled to at least one memory and configured to;

access digital image data associated with a digital image, the digital image including an object, and wherein a digital image resolution associated with the digital image has an image resolution value;

display the digital image on a display;

receive a user selection of a first portion of the digital image, wherein the first portion of the digital image includes at least a portion of the object;

receive user selected tagging information associated with the first portion of the digital image, wherein the tagging information includes one or more tags corresponding to the first portion of the digital image;

transmit the tagging information to a server system;

transmit a search request to the server system, wherein the search request includes one or more keywords, wherein the one or more keywords correspond to the one or more tags, and wherein

a first digital image resolution associated with the first portion of the digital image is adjusted to a first resolution value higher than the image resolution value,

and a second digital image resolution associated with a second portion of the digital image not including the first portion of the digital image is adjusted to a second resolution value lower than the image resolution value; and

display the digital image with the adjusted digital image resolutions of the first portion and the second portion of the digital image associated with the one or more keywords in response to the search request.