Patent ID: 7734100
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of locating and selecting a portion of a digital image to be excised from said image comprising: utilizing an imaging device having a processor associated therein to create said digital image; utilizing said processor to determine a location of at least two reference points within said digital image; utilizing said processor to select at least one of said reference points; utilizing said processor to scan said digital image in a preselected direction between said selected reference points to detect at least one horizontal line; utilizing said processor to locate a lower boundary point below said detected horizontal line; utilizing said processor to identify an excise region of the digital image bounded by a lower horizontal boundary which intersects said lower boundary point, an upper horizontal boundary which is located at a preselected distance above said lower horizontal boundary and the horizontal dimensions of the digital image; utilizing said processor to excise said excise region from said digital image.