import java.awt.geom.*;

abstract sclass AbstractBufferedImageOp implements BufferedImageOp, Cloneable {
    public BufferedImage createCompatibleDestImage(BufferedImage src, ColorModel dstCM) {
        if ( dstCM == null )
            dstCM = src.getColorModel();
        return new BufferedImage(dstCM, dstCM.createCompatibleWritableRaster(src.getWidth(), src.getHeight()), dstCM.isAlphaPremultiplied(), null);
    }
    
    public Rectangle2D getBounds2D( BufferedImage src ) {
        return new Rectangle(0, 0, src.getWidth(), src.getHeight());
    }
    
    public Point2D getPoint2D( Point2D srcPt, Point2D dstPt ) {
        if ( dstPt == null )
            dstPt = new Point2D.Double();
        dstPt.setLocation( srcPt.getX(), srcPt.getY() );
        return dstPt;
    }

    public RenderingHints getRenderingHints() {
        return null;
    }

	/**
	 * A convenience method for getting ARGB pixels from an image. This tries to avoid the performance
	 * penalty of BufferedImage.getRGB unmanaging the image.
     * @param image   a BufferedImage object
     * @param x       the left edge of the pixel block
     * @param y       the right edge of the pixel block
     * @param width   the width of the pixel arry
     * @param height  the height of the pixel arry
     * @param pixels  the array to hold the returned pixels. May be null.
     * @return the pixels
     * @see #setRGB
     */
	public int[] getRGB( BufferedImage image, int x, int y, int width, int height, int[] pixels ) {
		int type = image.getType();
		if ( type == BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB || type == BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB )
			return (int [])image.getRaster().getDataElements( x, y, width, height, pixels );
		return image.getRGB( x, y, width, height, pixels, 0, width );
    }

	/**
	 * A convenience method for setting ARGB pixels in an image. This tries to avoid the performance
	 * penalty of BufferedImage.setRGB unmanaging the image.
     * @param image   a BufferedImage object
     * @param x       the left edge of the pixel block
     * @param y       the right edge of the pixel block
     * @param width   the width of the pixel arry
     * @param height  the height of the pixel arry
     * @param pixels  the array of pixels to set
     * @see #getRGB
	 */
	public void setRGB( BufferedImage image, int x, int y, int width, int height, int[] pixels ) {
		int type = image.getType();
		if ( type == BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB || type == BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB )
			image.getRaster().setDataElements( x, y, width, height, pixels );
		else
			image.setRGB( x, y, width, height, pixels, 0, width );
    }

	public Object clone() {
		try {
			return super.clone();
		}
		catch ( CloneNotSupportedException e ) {
			return null;
		}
	}
}

from https://github.com/ajmas/JH-Labs-Java-Image-Filters/blob/master/src/com/jhlabs/image/AbstractBufferedImageOp.java