US 12,223,627 B2
Oversmoothing progressive images
Jyrki Antero Alakuijala, Wollerau (CH); and Moritz Firsching, Zurich (CH)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/760,076
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Apr. 27, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/070464
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 3, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/026966, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/706,055, filed on Jul. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0061045 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G06T 5/70 (2024.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06T 5/20 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 5/70 (2024.01) [G06F 3/14 (2013.01); G06T 5/20 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
transmitting, from a client, a request to access image data representing an image;
after transmitting the request, receiving a first portion of the image data, the first portion of the image data representing a first layer including a set of features;
in response to determining that a download time for receiving the image data satisfies a condition:
rendering, as the first layer, a smoothed version of the image on a display associated with the client, the smoothed version of the image including more than one color; and
while rendering the smoothed version of the image on the display associated with the client, receiving a second portion of the image data, the second portion of the image data representing a second layer; and
rendering the second layer on the display while displaying the set of features of the first layer on the display.