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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2007
John Winn, Cambridge, GB;
Carsten Rother, Cambridge, GB;
John Winn, Cambridge, GB;
Carsten Rother, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for editing digital images using information about objects in those images are described. For example, the information about objects comprises depth ordering information and/or information about the class each object is a member of. Examples of classes include sky, building, aeroplane, grass and person. This object-level information is used to provide new and/or improved editing functions such as cut and paste, filling-in image regions using tiles or patchworks, digital tapestry, alpha matte generation, super resolution, auto cropping, auto color balance, object selection, depth of field manipulation, and object replacement. In addition improvements to user interfaces for image editing systems are described which use object-level information.