System for non-destructive image processing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8995794-B2
Application number	US-201414206635-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 12, 2014
Priority date	Dec 6, 2011
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

An image processor comprises a plurality of processing modules coupled together in series. Each of at least two of the processing modules includes an image data input to receive at least one of i) an original image or ii) image data output by a previous processing module in the series. Each of the at least two of the processing modules also includes a processing unit configured to i) detect that image data is to be generated and ii) process image data received via the at least one image data input to generate image data. Each of the at least two of the processing modules also includes a memory to store image data generated by the processing unit.

First claim

What is claimed:

1. A method for non-destructive image processing comprising:
processing an original image with an image processor, the image processor comprising a plurality of processing modules coupled together in series, the plurality of processing modules in at least one of i) hardware or ii) one or more processors executing machine readable instructions, the original image processed using a first sequence of processing modules to generate a first processed image;
after gen…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Mclean Paul

Classifications

• G06T1/00

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T1/20 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic