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Method and system for automatically cropping images

US9070182B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 7, 2012
Grant dateJun 30, 2015
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Expiry dateApr 19, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L65/403
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image cropping technique includes detecting, at a computer system including one or more processors, faces within an image and evaluating, at the computer system, the faces to determine if any of the faces correspond to people within a user's online social network. The technique additionally includes defining, at the computer system, a first crop region including a subset of the faces when at least one face within the subset of the faces corresponds to a first person in the user's online social network and cropping, at the computer system, the image based on the first crop region.

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