Context-Aware Image Editing Interface with Adaptive Color Controls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Many image editing applications lack intuitive color adjustment controls, requiring extensive knowledge and dispersing adjustment tools across the user interface, causing inconvenience in editing images.
Innovation Solution
The development of novel user interface tools that allow users to adjust color values of specific image content types (e.g., sky, foliage) by identifying associated pixels and applying adjustments based on user input, using range sliders and directional inputs for precise editing, and providing on-image UI controls that adapt to detected content for intuitive operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional color adjustment controls are used, then color editing functionality is provided, but the controls are not intuitive and require extensive user knowledge
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color changes by displaying color overlays on the image that visually represent the color adjustment effects. When users interact with sliders or controls, the system shows real-time color changes on the image preview, making the abstract color adjustment process visually intuitive and eliminating the need for extensive color theory knowledge.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses copying by creating visual copies or representations of the color adjustment effects through overlays. Instead of showing only numerical values or abstract controls, the system generates visual copies of how the colors will change, allowing users to see the effect before applying it.
2Ease of operation
If traditional dispersed controls are used, then color adjustment functionality is provided, but the controls are located in different locations causing inconvenience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges all color adjustment controls into a single unified interface panel that is consistently positioned. Instead of having separate controls for different color parameters scattered throughout the application, all sliders and controls are combined in one location, making them easily accessible and eliminating the need to navigate to different parts of the interface for different adjustments.
3Ease of manufacture
If automatic pixel identification is implemented, then targeted color adjustment of specific content types is achieved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining color ranges for different content types (sky, foliage, skin tones, etc.) before the user needs to make adjustments. The system预先 identifies and categorizes pixels based on their color characteristics, so when the user selects a content type and adjusts its color, the system can quickly apply the adjustment to the pre-identified pixel set without performing complex real-time analysis.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory machine readable medium that has a computer program for adjusting color values of an image represented in a color space. The image includes several pixels. Each pixel includes a set of color values. The computer program receives a selection of a location on the image. The computer program determines a type of content that is associated with the selected location on the image. From several different image editing operations, the computer program selects a set of image editing operations based on the determined type of content. The computer program displays a set of user interface controls that is associated with the selected set of image editing operations.