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John Michael Calandrino

Richard Jennings Duncan

Benjamin Salim Srour

Thomas Henry Alphin, Iii

Sanjeev Kewal Verma

David B Perry

Rick Duncan

Kyle Thomas Beck

Thomas H Iii Alphin

Techniques enabling live tiles without application-code execution permit live content to be presented in tiles without executing code of applications associated with those tiles. By so doing, live tiles may be presented more safely, faster, or using fewer resources.

Live tiles without application-code execution

Techniques enabling live tiles without application-code execution are described. These techniques permit live content to be presented in tiles without executing code of applications associated with those tiles. By so doing, live tiles may be presented more safely, faster, or using fewer resources.

A method for processing an image such as a computer wallpaper identifies a characteristic color representative of the image. Image pixels with similar colors are separated into groups, and the average value of the R,G,B color components in each group is determined, after filtering out pixels with R,G,B values representing white, black, or grey. The group with the maximum difference between the highest average color component value and the lowest average color component value is identified as the characteristic color. Groups representing a number of pixels less than a certain percentage of all of the pixels are not considered. The characteristic color can be used in other displayed images at an intensity &#x3b1; determined by setting maximum and minimum values of &#x3b1;, with &#x3b1; being the lesser of &#x3b1;and &#x3b1;plus the average color span of all pixels in the image.

Automatic adjustment of computer interface colors using image processing

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John Michael Calandrino