Patent Document ID: 9251594
Application ID: 14169025

Base Claim:
1. A method implemented by a computing device, the method comprising: calculating, for candidate croppings of a scene, scores indicative of a boundary simplicity for each of the candidate croppings, including: ranking the candidate croppings according to values derived for the candidate croppings that indicate a complexity of the scene along a boundary of a candidate cropping, and calculating the scores indicative of the boundary simplicity as normalized scores for the candidate croppings based on the ranking; and choosing one or more croppings from the candidate croppings based, at least in part, on the scores calculated for the candidate croppings that are indicative of the boundary simplicity.

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Claim 5:
5. A method as described in claim 1 , wherein the one or more croppings are chosen solely based on the scores indicative of the boundary simplicity, and the one or more croppings that are chosen include a cropping having a score which indicates that said cropping has a simplest boundary of the candidate croppings.