Abstract: In some implementations, a method provides color corrections based on multiple images. In some implementations, a method includes determining one or more characteristics of each of a plurality of source images and determining one or more similarities between the one or more characteristics of different source images. The source images are grouped into one or more groups of one or more target images based on the determined similarities. The method determines and applies one or more color corrections to the one or more target images in at least one of the groups.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 23, 2015
Date of Patent:
January 26, 2016
Assignee:
Google Inc.
Inventors:
Aravind Krishnaswamy, Nicholas Butko, David Cohen
Abstract: Various approaches for providing textual information to an application, system, or service are disclosed. In particular, various embodiments enable a user to capture an image with a camera of a portable computing device. The computing device is capable of taking the image and processing it to recognize, identify, and/or isolate the text in order to forward the text to an application or function. The application or function can then utilize the text to perform an action in substantially real-time. The text may include an email, phone number, URL, an address, and the like and the application or function may be dialing the phone number, navigating to the URL, opening an address book to save contact information, displaying a map to show the address, and so on. Adaptive thresholding can be used to account for variations across an image, in order to improve the accuracy and efficiency of text recognition processes.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 4, 2013
Date of Patent:
June 9, 2015
Assignee:
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Inventors:
Volodymyr V. Ivanchenko, Geoffrey Scott Heller, Richard Howard Suplee, III, Daniel Bibireata
Abstract: A computer implemented method of generating a digital collage layout for a group of digital images is disclosed. A group of digital images is retrieved from a computer accessible memory. A determination is made whether to select the digital collage layout from a stored collection of digital collage layouts or to generate a new set of digital collage layouts and select the digital collage layout from the new set. Based on determination, the digital collage layout is provided from the stored collection or from the new set.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 14, 2013
Date of Patent:
May 5, 2015
Assignee:
Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC
Inventors:
William Jay Bogart, Michael James Barry, Joseph Leo Vonasek