Patent Document ID: 10055107
Application ID: 14853069
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method implemented by a computing device to define a portion of an image as selected based on selection input, the method comprising: receiving a selection input for selecting a portion of an image displayed via a display device associated with the computing device, the selection input received using at least one of touch functionality of the display device or an input device communicably coupled to the computing device; determining, from pixels of the image that correspond to the selection input, at least one center pixel of the selection input; determining probabilities that the pixels corresponding to the selection input are intended to be included as part of a selected portion of the image, the probability for a selection-input pixel determined as a function of position relative to the at least one center pixel of the selection input and a difference in a visual characteristic with the at least one center pixel; applying a segmentation technique to the image to segment the selected portion from a remainder of the image, the segmentation technique identifying the pixels of the image as part of the selected portion or as part of the remainder of the image based, in part, on the probabilities; and generating selected portion data that defines the selected portion according to the segmentation of the selected portion from the remainder of the image.