Claims
- 1. A system for facilitating secondary color modification of moving images, comprising:
a graphical user interface displayed on a display of a general purpose computer and comprising:
a source chroma wheel display for displaying one or more source chroma regions; a destination chroma wheel display for displaying one or more destination chroma regions, wherein the destination chroma wheel display is simultaneously displayed with the source chroma wheel display; wherein each of the one or more source chroma regions and the one or more destination chroma regions represents a set of chroma values; wherein each source chroma region has a corresponding destination chroma region so as to define a mapping of input chroma values to output chroma values, thereby defining a secondary color modification; wherein the graphical user interface provides a plurality of types of controls for adjusting each of the one or more source chroma regions and the one or more destination chroma regions; wherein the general purpose computer is programmed to include means for performing, on at least one image, the secondary color modification.
- 2. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a text box for permitting a user to input a value for a parameter defining the chroma region.
- 3. The system of claim 2, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a slider for permitting a user to select a value from a range of values for a parameter defining the chroma region, according to a position of the slider that may be adjusted by the user.
- 4. The system of claim 3, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a pointing device for permitting a user to select and to manipulate directly a portion of a graphical representation of a chroma region on one of the source and destination chroma wheel displays to adjust a parameter corresponding to the portion and defining the chroma region.
- 5. The system of claim 4, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 6. The system of claim 3, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 7. The system of claim 2, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a pointing device for permitting a user to select and to manipulate directly a portion of a graphical representation of a chroma region on one of the source and destination chroma wheel displays to adjust a parameter corresponding to the portion and defining the chroma region.
- 8. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 9. The system of claim 2, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 10. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a slider for permitting a user to select a value from a range of values for a parameter defining the chroma region, according to a position of the slider that may be adjusted by the user.
- 11. The system of claim 10, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a pointing device for permitting a user to select and to manipulate directly a portion of a graphical representation of a chroma region on one of the source and destination chroma wheel displays to adjust a parameter corresponding to the portion and defining the chroma region.
- 12. The system of claim 11, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 13. The system of claim 10, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 14. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a pointing device for permitting a user to select and to manipulate directly a portion of a graphical representation of a chroma region on one of the source and destination chroma wheel displays to adjust a parameter corresponding to the portion and defining the chroma region.
- 15. The system of claim 14, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 16. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the types of controls comprises a selection mechanism for permitting a user to select one or more pixels from an image to which a chroma region is automatically fit.
- 17. The system of claim 1, wherein the destination color wheel display is displayed in horizontal alignment with the source color wheel display.
- 18. The system of claim 1, wherein the destination color wheel display is displayed horizontally adjacent to the source color wheel display.
- 19. The system of claim 1, wherein one of the types of controls is a chroma match control permitting a user to select one or more chroma values for a source chroma region, and to select one or more chroma values for a corresponding destination chroma region.
- 20. The system of claim 1, wherein the means for performing includes a lookup table that provides, for each chroma input value, a corresponding chroma output value according to the defined secondary color modification.
- 21. The system of claim 1, wherein at least two source chroma regions overlap within the source chroma wheel display.
- 22. The system of claim 21, wherein one of the at least two overlapping source chroma regions has precedence, and wherein the means for performing includes applying the secondary color modification corresponding to the source chroma region that has precedence.
- 23. The system of claim 21, wherein the means for performing includes applying the secondary color modifications corresponding to the at least two source chroma regions sequentially.
- 24. A system for facilitating secondary color modification of moving images, comprising:
a graphical user interface displayed on a display of a general purpose computer and comprising:
a chroma region input graph for displaying a representation of ope or more chroma regions; a chroma modification graph for displaying a representation of one or more chroma regions, wherein the chroma modification graph is simultaneously displayed with the chroma region input graph; wherein each chroma region on the chroma input graph and each chroma region on the chroma modification graph represents a set of chroma values; wherein the graphical user interface provides a plurality of types of controls for modifying chroma region parameters that define each of the one or more chroma regions in the chroma region input graph; wherein the graphical user interface provides a plurality of types of controls for modifying chroma modification parameters that define each of the one or more chroma regions in the chroma modification graph; and wherein each chroma region on the chroma region input graph has a corresponding chroma region on the chroma modification graph so as to define a mapping of input chroma values to output chroma values, thereby defining a secondary color modification; and wherein the general purpose computer is programmed to include means for performing, on at least one image, the secondary color modification defined by the one or more chroma regions and the corresponding one or more chroma modification regions.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. §120, and is a continuation application of:
[0002] application Ser. No. 10/242,806, filed Sep. 13, 2002, pending, which is a continuation application of application Ser. No. 09/545,644, filed Apr. 7, 2000, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,477,271; and both of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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