Patent ID: 9691145
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A computer implemented method for segmenting and designating, by a server computer, premium finish regions based on an image received from a remote user using a client device in communication with the server computer via a communications network, the method comprising: the server computer generating from the received image a segmented image having a plurality of pixels corresponding to the respective plurality of pixels of the received image, the segmented image comprising discrete segments each comprising a subset of pixels; the server computer processing the segmented image to classify one or more of the discrete segments as foreground segments and one or more of the discrete segments as background segments by receiving a selection area boundary that corresponds to a selection area of the segmented image and classifying all segments that are fully contained within the selection area of the segmented image as foreground segments and classifying all segments outside of or that overlap the selection area of the segmented image as background segments; and the server computer designating the foreground segments as premium finish regions and the background segments as primary finish regions; and providing the designation of the premium finish regions to the client device via the communications network.