Patents by Inventor Catalin Negrila

Catalin Negrila has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Saliency-preserving distinctive low-footprint photograph aging effects
    Patent number: 9892525
    Abstract: Technologies for modifying a digital image to take on the appearance of an antique image. Such modifying is typically based on generating and rendering various effects that are blended with the input image, such as color transformation, simulating film grain, dust, fibers, tears, and vintage borders. Such effects may be rendered to various layers that are overlaid on a color transformed image resulting in what appears to be an antique image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Catalin Negrila, John Gabriel D'Angelo, Allison Light, David Lee
  • SALIENCY-PRESERVING DISTINCTIVE LOW-FOOTPRINT PHOTOGRAPH AGING EFFECTS
    Publication number: 20160239987
    Abstract: Technologies for modifying a digital image to take on the appearance of an antique image. Such modifying is typically based on generating and rendering various effects that are blended with the input image, such as color transformation, simulating film grain, dust, fibers, tears, and vintage borders. Such effects may be rendered to various layers that are overlaid on a color transformed image resulting in what appears to be an antique image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Catalin Negrila, John Gabriel D'Angelo, Allison Light, David Lee
  • Saliency-preserving distinctive low-footprint photograph aging effect
    Patent number: 9373179
    Abstract: Technologies for modifying a digital image to take on the appearance of an antique image. Such modifying is typically based on generating and rendering various effects that are blended with the input image, such as color transformation, simulating film grain, dust, fibers, tears, and vintage borders. Such effects may be rendered to various layers that are overlaid on a color transformed image resulting in what appears to be an antique image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Catalin Negrila, John Gabriel D'Angelo, Allison Light, David Lee
  • SALIENCY-PRESERVING DISTINCTIVE LOW-FOOTPRINT PHOTOGRAPH AGING EFFECT
    Publication number: 20150371409
    Abstract: Technologies for modifying a digital image to take on the appearance of an antique image. Such modifying is typically based on generating and rendering various effects that are blended with the input image, such as color transformation, simulating film grain, dust, fibers, tears, and vintage borders. Such effects may be rendered to various layers that are overlaid on a color transformed image resulting in what appears to be an antique image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Catalin Negrila, John Gabriel D'Angelo, Allison Light, David Lee