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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2002
Nils Kokemohr, Hamburg, DE;
Nik Multimedia, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for image processing of a digital image comprising the steps of determining one or more sets of pixel characteristics; determining for each pixel characteristic set, an image editing function; providing a mixing function algorithm embodied on a computer-readable medium for modifying the digital image; and processing the digital image by applying ( ) the mixing function algorithm based on the one or more pixel characteristic sets and determined image editing functions. Various mixing function algorithms are described. An application program interface embodied on a computer-readable medium comprising a first interface to receive the coordinates of the image reference points, and a second interface to receive the image editing function is also provided. The application program interface may represent the image reference points by a graphic tag ( ).