Unified Color Correction Graph Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media editing tools lack customization and efficiency in color correction, requiring users to access multiple windows and perform global adjustments, limiting the ability to make precise, localized changes to specific color attributes.
Innovation Solution
A media editing interface that displays a modifiable graph correlating a first color attribute to a set of second color attributes, allowing users to specify custom color correction adjustments using control points and a Gaussian manipulator, enabling flexible and precise adjustments across various color attributes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate media editing interface windows are used to access different color attribute tools, then each tool can provide specialized functionality, but the user must switch between multiple windows and manage multiple interface layouts, reducing efficiency and increasing complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate color editing tools (hue adjustment, saturation adjustment, brightness adjustment, contrast adjustment) into a single unified interface window. This unified interface displays multiple graphical representations simultaneously, allowing users to access and adjust all color attributes from one location rather than switching between multiple separate windows, thereby reducing interface complexity while maintaining full tool functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The unified media editing interface is designed to perform multiple color editing functions simultaneously through a single window. The interface can display and adjust hue, saturation, brightness, and contrast attributes together, making the interface universal and multi-functional rather than requiring specialized separate windows for each function
2Ease of operation
If global adjustment tools are used to modify color attributes, then the entire image can be adjusted uniformly, but the user cannot apply adjustments to only specific ranges of color attribute values, reducing customization capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables local quality adjustment by allowing users to apply color corrections to specific ranges of color attribute values rather than uniformly to the entire image. Each graphical representation supports selective adjustment where users can target particular segments of the color attribute distribution, applying different adjustment strengths or types to different portions of the image's color spectrum
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustment mechanism is made dynamic by allowing users to selectively apply adjustments to different ranges of color attribute values. The system transitions from static global adjustment to dynamic selective adjustment where the scope and intensity of correction can be varied independently for different portions of the image based on their color attribute values
3Adaptability or versatility
If selective adjustment tools with control points are used, then customization capability is improved, but the interface becomes more complex and requires learning additional controls and concepts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple adjustment controls and graphical representations into a single unified interface window. By combining hue adjustment, saturation adjustment, brightness adjustment, and contrast adjustment tools along with their respective graphical representations in one window, the interface reduces the cognitive load and learning curve associated with navigating multiple separate windows while preserving full customization capability through control points and selective range adjustment
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AI summary
Some embodiments provide a method of color correcting an image. Some such embodiments provide (1) a display area for displaying a modifiable graph correlating a first color attribute of the image to a set of second color attributes and (2) at least one tool that adjusts the graph in order to adjust color attributes in the image. The graph adjustment tool of some embodiments is a set of control points that specify the color correction adjustment over a parameterized curve representation of the graph. In some embodiments, the graphs are rasterized curves that are adjusted through the use of a Gaussian manipulator. The Gaussian manipulator distributes a second color attribute adjustment over a set of first color attribute values according to a Gaussian distribution. Moreover, some embodiments allow for the selective switching between the parameterized and rasterized curves or the control points and the Gaussian manipulator.