Patent ID: 9082189
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: G06K,G06T

Abstract:
1. A computer program, embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer program configured to control a processor to automatically generate a bounding box, the generating comprising: sampling a plurality of points that lie within an interior of an arbitrary shape; automatically creating a rectangle from each of the points, wherein each of the rectangles lies completely within the interior and each rectangle comprises a pair of height sides and a pair of width sides; increasing the height sides and the width sides of the rectangles until each of the rectangles touches at least one side of the arbitrary shape; assigning a largest of the increased rectangles as an interior bounding box for the arbitrary shape, wherein the largest of the increased rectangles is the rectangle that has the largest area of the increased rectangles; and placing an item within the interior bounding box, wherein the item is contained within the arbitrary shape and the item is at least one of an image or text.