Method and system for automatically cropping images
US9552622B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 27, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jan 24, 2017 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2035 |
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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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