Patent ID: 9240064
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: G06T

Claim Text:
1. An image processing device, comprising: a setting unit that sets a plurality of trimming candidate areas in a target image; a calculation unit that calculates, with respect to each of the plurality of trimming candidate areas, a total value of edge amounts of pixels in the trimming candidate area; a determination unit that determines a trimming area from among the plurality of trimming candidate areas, based on the total value of each of the plurality of trimming candidate areas; and an obtaining unit that obtains an image in the trimming area, wherein the calculation unit calculates the total value of edge amounts of each of the pixels in the trimming candidate area, by summing up the edge amounts of each of the individual pixels in the trimming candidate area to thereby calculate the total value of the trimming candidate area, and the determination unit comprises a unit that determines a trimming candidate area of which the total value is a maximum among the plurality of trimming candidate areas as the trimming area.