Digital Image Effect Parameter Extraction and Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern digital image processing software is complex and difficult for novice users to navigate, requiring significant training to understand and replicate advanced effects, leading to a disconnect between processing ability and ease-of-use.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating parameters that define digital imaging effects into digital image files, allowing recipients to view and apply these effects to other images, and providing user interfaces to configure and share these effects, even if the original software is not accessible.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital image processing software provides advanced processing capabilities, then the quality and variety of visual effects improve, but the complexity of the software increases making it difficult for novice users to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential visual effect parameters from complex image processing software operations and packages them into standalone effect definitions that can be shared independently. This separates the core visual outcome from the complex processing steps, allowing users to access effects without needing to understand the underlying software complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates copyable effect definitions that capture the essential parameters of visual effects. These effect copies can be shared and applied to other images without requiring the original software or complex processing knowledge, enabling novice users to replicate professional effects easily.
2Ease of operation
If advanced image processing effects are made accessible to novice users, then ease of use improves, but the ability to replicate sophisticated effects deteriorates without proper training
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary analysis of image processing effects to extract and define the essential parameters that produce the visual outcome. By pre-packaging these parameters into effect definitions, the system eliminates the need for users to undergo training while ensuring accurate replication of sophisticated effects through predefined parameter sets.
3Productivity
If effect parameters are embedded in digital image files for sharing, then the ability to share and replicate effects improves, but the file size and data complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the image data from the effect definition data, storing them in separate but associated structures. The effect parameters are embedded as distinct metadata or sidecar files rather than inflating the core image data, allowing efficient sharing where the effect definition can be independently transmitted and applied to multiple images.
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AI summary
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the sharing of digital imaging effects from an image originator to an image recipient. A digital imaging effect is the result of a processing technique that is applied to a digital image in a way that produces a particular visual effect. The processing techniques that underlie digital imaging effects such as these can be defined by parameters that establish how the individual pixels comprising the image are manipulated to achieve the desired visual effect. In certain embodiments such defining parameters can be incorporated into a digital image file that thus contains not only data defining the image itself, but also parameters that define one or more effects that may have been applied to the image. This advantageously allows a recipient of the digital image file to not only view the image, but also to use the incorporated parameters to apply the effect to other images.