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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2000
Paul Haeberli, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shutterfly, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method in which a user interface is presented to a user that allows the user to crop a selected image. A crop mask is displayed over the selected image. The system can generate the crop mask as a GIF image in which a portion of the crop mask corresponding to a selected portion of the image is transparent and a portion of the crop mask corresponding to a cropped portion of the image has a checkerboard pattern. By displaying the crop mask over the image, the selected portion of the image can be visually indicated. When a user changes the current selected portion of the image (for example, by actuating a control included in the user interface), a new crop mask can be generated based on the changes made by the user. The new crop mask can be displayed over the image in order to visually indicate the new selected portion of the image. The system and method can be implemented using a browser-based system such as the World Wide Web. For example, the image and the crop mask can be displayed in an HTML table cell embedded in a web page.