Patent ID: 9633046
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06Q,G06T,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. An imaging device for automated image cropping, the imaging device comprising: an image capture module to capture a digital image; a subject recognition module to recognize a first subject and a second subject represented in the digital image; a social network module to (i) determine a first social network group to which the first subject is associated and (ii) determine a second social network group to which the second subject is associated, wherein the first subject is not associated with the second social network group; an image crop module to crop, based on a composition rule policy, the digital image to (i) generate a first sub-image including the first subject and excluding the second subject, the composition rule policy comprising a set of rules that define the composition of the first sub-image based on the recognized first subject and (ii) generate a second sub-image including the second subject and excluding the first subject, the composition rule policy comprising a set of rules that define the composition of the second sub-image based on the recognized second subject; and an image sharing module to (i) share the first sub-image with the first social network group and (ii) share the second sub-image with the second social network group.