ALTERING THE APPEARANCE OF A DIGITAL IMAGE USING A SHAPE

Patent №

US RE47152

Granted

2018-12-04

Filed 2015

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14938584

Technologies are described herein for altering the appearance of a digital image using a shape. A mask edit mode of operation is provided in which an application program displays a mask shape superimposed on a digital image. The application program also provides user interface controls for altering the size, position, and rotation of the digital image independently of the mask shape, and user interface controls for altering the size, position, and rotation of the mask shape independently of the digital image. When a cropping request is received, the portion of the digital image within the mask shape is mapped onto the mask shape, thereby creating a mask-cropped shape, and a normal editing mode is entered. In the normal editing mode a set of user interface controls is provided for modifying the size, position, and rotation of the mask-cropped shape.

AI classification

Vision0.98
AI hardware0.08
Planning0.07
Knowledge representation0.01
Evolutionary computation0.01
Speech0.00
Natural language0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 370160880

Assignors

HATFIELD, LARRY T., DOUGLAS, SCOTT H., ROHRING, NICHOLAS W., KOTLER, MATTHEW J., GEFFNER, STEVEN P.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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