Graphical Color Value Editing Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Media-editing applications lack intuitive color adjustment controls, requiring extensive knowledge and dispersing color adjustment tools across the user interface, making image editing inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
A media-editing application that allows users to edit images by directly manipulating graphical representations of color values, such as histograms, waveforms, and vectorscopes, generating color space transforms based on user inputs to adjust image colors.
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 knowledge
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the color space (such as a simplified histogram or color wheel) that mirrors the underlying color data but presents it in an intuitive, easy-to-manipulate form. This allows users to interact with color adjustments through familiar visual metaphors rather than complex technical controls
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes visual color representations (such as color wheels, histograms, or waveform displays) as the primary interface for color adjustment. Users manipulate color parameters by interacting with visual color data rather than numerical values, making the controls intuitive and immediately understandable
2Ease of operation
If traditional color adjustment tools are dispersed in the user interface, then color editing functionality is provided, but editing convenience is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple color adjustment controls and functions into a single integrated panel or interface element. This consolidation allows users to access and adjust all color parameters (hue, saturation, luminance, etc.) from one location rather than searching through dispersed controls across the interface
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal color adjustment panel that handles multiple color editing functions simultaneously. This multi-functional interface can adjust different color parameters, apply to different color spaces, and work with various image types all through a single unified control mechanism
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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 is described. The computer program displays a graphical representation of the color values of the image. The computer program receives a set of inputs on the graphical representation. In response to the received set of inputs, the computer program determines a color space transform for mapping a set of color values defined within the color space to a different set of color values. The computer program modifies the image by using the color space transform to change the color values of the image.