Patent ID: 7133571
Filing Date: 2006-11-07
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic image processor for cropping an electronic image, the image processor adapted to: a) process the electronic image to identify one or more features relevant to the composition of the electronic image; b) select at least one compositional rule from a plurality of predetermined compositional rules, based on the relevance of the compositional rule(s) to one or more of the identified features; c) determine one or more suitable crop boundaries by applying the selected compositional rules; d) generate a number of crop candidates corresponding to said crop boundaries; e) generate minimum and maximum crop limits for each of the crop candidates; f) evaluate suitable candidate crop boundaries between the minimum and maximum crop limits by generating a measure of quality for each candidate crop boundary in accordance with at least one quality metric; and g) select a reduced number of crop candidates as output candidates based on the measure of quality generated in the evaluating step.