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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2012
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Russell Y. Webb, San Jose, CA (US);
Garrett M. Johnson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jerremy Holland, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Some embodiments of the image editing and organizing application described herein provide a multi-stage automatic enhancement process. The process takes an input image and feeds it through multiple different enhancement operations. The multiple enhancement operations of some embodiments are carried out in a particular order. In some embodiments, the particular order starts with exposure adjustment, then a white balance adjustment, then a vibrancy adjustment, then a tonal response curve adjustment, then a shadow lift adjustment.