Image-filtering interface

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12373919-B2
Application number	US-202318093251-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 4, 2023
Priority date	Jan 4, 2023
Publication date	Jul 29, 2025
Grant date	Jul 29, 2025

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes accessing an initial image and applying each image filter from a set of one or more N image filters to the initial image to create N filtered images. The method further includes generating a similarity metric for each pair of images in a set of images comprising the initial image and the N filtered images and determining, based on the similarity metrics, a placement of each image in the set of images within an image-filter space. The method further includes generating, based on the image-filter space, a selectable image-filter interface; and providing the selectable image-filter interface for display, wherein each selectable region of the selectable image-filter interface is associated with a particular filtering of the initial image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
accessing an initial image;
applying each image filter from a set of one or more N image filters to the initial image to create N filtered images;
generating a similarity metric for each pair of images in a set of images comprising the initial image and the N filtered images;
determining, based on the similarity metrics, a placement of each image in the set of images within an image-filter space;
generating, based on the image-filter space, a selectable image-filter interface; and
providing the selectable image-filter interface for display, wherein each selectable region of the selectable image-filter interface is associated with a particular filtering of the initial image.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the N image filters from the set of one or more image filters are predetermined based on a category associated with the initial image.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the similarity metric comprises a scalar distance metric based on a difference between image-channel histogram values of a pair of images.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the difference between image-channel histogram values of a pair of images is determined for each of a plurality of image channels.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the image-filter space comprises a 2-dimensional space of a predetermined width and height.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the placement of each image in the set of images within the image-filter space comprises using a spring-force model to determine the placement, wherein each image in the set of images comprises a node in the spring-force model and each similarity metric is associated with a link distance in the spring-force model.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein each selectable region of the selectable image-filter interface is represented by a particular color that represents a particular filtering associated with that selectable region.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein generating the selectable image-filter interface comprises determining, for each image filter in the set of one or more image filters, an average color representing that filter.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein generating the selectable image-filter interface comprises:
for each of a plurality of points of the user-selectable interface that are not associated with an image filter from the set of one or more N image filters, then determining an image filter for that point by interpolating the image filters from the set of image filters as weighted by a distance from each image filter from the set of N image filters to that point.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying, on a display of a client computing device, the selectable image-filter interface.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving user input selecting a particular region of the selectable image-filter interface;
determining whether the selected region is associated with a particular image filter from the set of image filters;
when the selected region is associated with a particular image filter from the set of image filters, then applying the particular image filter; and
when the selected region is not associated with a particular image filter from the set of image filters, then applying a filter based on the selected region's proximity to one or more of the N image filters.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein applying a filter based on the selected region's proximity to one or more of the N image filters comprises selecting the k nearest image filters and interpolating the image filters based on a distance between the selected region and each of the k image filters.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
receiving user input selecting a particular region of the selectable image-filter interface; and
displaying the initial image as filtered based on the selection of the particular region.

14. One or more non-transitory computer readable storage media embodying instructions and coupled to one or more processors that are operable to execute the instructions to:
access an initial image;
apply each image filter from a set of one or more N image filters to the initial image to create N filtered images;
generate a similarity metric for each pair of images in a set of images comprising the initial image and the N filtered images;
determine, based on the similarity metrics, a placement of each image in the set of images within an image-filter space;
generate, based on the image-filter space, a selectable image-filter interface; and
provide the selectable image-filter interface for display, wherein each selectable region of the selectable image-filter interface is associated with a particular filtering of the initial image.

15. The media of claim 14 , wherein the N image filters from the set of one or more image filters are predetermined based on a category associated with the initial image.

16. The media of claim 14 , wherein the similarity metric comprises a scalar distance metric based on a difference between image-channel histogram values of a pair of images.

17. The media of claim 14 , wherein each selectable region of the selectable image-filter interface is represented by a particular color that represents a particular filtering associated with that selectable region.

18. A system comprising:
one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media embodying instructions; and
one or more processors coupled to the non-transitory computer readable storage media, the one or more processors being operable to execute the instructions to:
access an initial image;
apply each image filter from a set of one or more N image filters to the initial image to create N filtered images;
generate a similarity metric for each pair of images in a set of images comprising the initial image and the N filtered images;
determine, based on the similarity metrics, a placement of each image in the set of images within an image-filter space;
generate, based on the image-filter space, a selectable image-filter interface; and
provide the selectable image-filter interface for display, wherein each selectable region of the selectable image-filter interface is associated with a particular filtering of the initial image.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the N image filters from the set of one or more image filters are predetermined based on a category associated with the initial image.

20. The system of claim 18 , wherein the similarity metric comprises a scalar distance metric based on a difference between image-channel histogram values of a pair of images.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Rowe Megan
• Zhao Ye
• Vyas Kushal Kardam
• Kim Jihee
• Mohammed Imran
• Brenner Thomas
• Fuhrmann Hanna
• Sadi Sajid

Classifications

• G06V10/761 Primary

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