Intelligent Cropping of Images Based on Multiple Interacting Variables

• US 20140044358A1
• Filed: 08/08/2012
• Published: 02/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Lider, Brett Rolston, Yeskel, Zach, SRINIVASAN, Balaji, Boncha, Alison
• Granted Patent: US 8,867,841 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/190
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2210/22 Cropping
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/04 Context-preserving transformations, e.g. by using an importance map panospheric to cylindrical image transformations G06T3/12
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification

Abstract

Methods and systems for intelligently cropping images, including receiving, over a computer network, a source image, and then associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image. A cropped image is generated from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object. The system and method then notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for intelligently cropping images, comprising:

receiving, over a computer network, a source image;

associating a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image;

generating a cropped image from the source image, based on the first object; and

notifying a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the associating is performed by a second user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the second user is a social media connection of the first user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the associating is performed by a computer-based recognizing and identifying process.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first object is a person.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the received source image is from the owner of the image.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification includes a source of the associating.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising associating a second identifier tag with a second object in the source image.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the notification of the first user includes the cropped image that includes the first and second object.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising notifying a second user wherein the notifying the second user includes where the generated cropped image includes the first object but not the second object.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the second user is a social media connection of the first object but is not a social media connection of the second object.

12. A computer-implemented method for intelligently cropping images, comprising:

receiving a notification that a first identifier tag is associated with a first object in a source image,

wherein the notification includes receiving a cropped image based on the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising sending the source image to a social media website, wherein the sending is performed by a first user.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the associating is performed by a second user.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the second user is a social media connection of the first user.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the first identifier tag is associated with the first object by a computer-based recognizing and identifying process.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein the first object is a person.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising sending the source image to a social media website, wherein the sending is performed by the owner of the image.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the notification further comprises a source of the associating.

20. The method of claim 12, wherein the notification further comprises that a second identifier tag is associated with a second object in the source image.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the cropped image includes the first and second object.

22. The method of claim 20, further comprising a second user receiving a notification wherein the notification includes a cropped image that includes the first object but not the second object.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the second user is a social media connection of the first object but is not a social media connection of the second object.

24. A system, comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor;

an image storage module configured to be executed by the processor and further configured to store uploaded source images;

an association module configured to be executed by the processor and further configured to associate a first identifier tag with a first object in the source image;

an image cropping module configured to be executed by the processor and further configured to generate a cropped image from the source image wherein the cropping is based on the first object; and

a notification module configured to be executed by the processor and further configured to notify a first user that the first identifier tag is associated with the first object in the cropped image, wherein the notification includes the cropped image.