Patent Document ID: 9554030
Application ID: 14500911
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A mobile device comprising: one or more processors; one or more memories communicatively coupled to the one or more processors; a camera; a display for displaying images to a user and for receiving user input from the user; and a photo application executing on the mobile device and being configured to: cause the camera to acquire an image represented by image data, process the image data to identify a plurality of candidate objects of interest in the image by: identifying a plurality of prominent regions within the image, assigning a plurality of bounding boxes to the plurality of prominent regions within the image, and for each bounding box from the plurality of bounding boxes, determining one or more of a color contrast score, an edge density score, or a superpixel straddling score, select a particular candidate object of interest from the plurality of candidate objects of interest based upon the scores for the plurality of bounding boxes, wherein the particular candidate object of interest has a location other than the center of the display, and cause passive auto focusing to be performed at the location other than the center of the display of the particular candidate object of interest.