Patent Document ID: 20100296748
Application ID: 12454666
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating a modified image, the method comprising: displaying an image in a computer system, the image comprising contents that have a feature visible therein, the contents having a region thereof defined to be provided with additional content in generating a modified image; receiving an input comprising a semantic mark to be placed on the image, the semantic mark indicating an inside-region part inside the region and an outside-region part outside the region; determining the additional content for the region using a patch-based optimization algorithm applied to the image, the patch-based optimization algorithm (i) identifying the additional content for the inside-region part based on the outside-region part and not on an area of the image that the semantic mark does not indicate, and (ii) identifying the additional content for a remainder of the region without being restricted to the outside-region part; and storing the modified image having the additional content in the region.