Patent ID: 9552622
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,H04L

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method to crop an image, the method comprising: detecting, by a computer system including one or more processors, one or more faces within an image; evaluating, by the computer system, the one or more faces to identify a subset of faces each corresponding to a person within a user's online social network; determining, by the computer system, a degree of affiliation between the user and each person in the subset of the faces within the user's online social network; determining, by the computer system, saliency values of pixels within the image; adjusting, by the computer system, the saliency values of pixels within the image based on the determined degree of affiliation; and cropping, by the computer system, the image based on the adjusted saliency values.