Google Inc.

Paul Bankhead

Huacheng Ke

Jayesh Sharma

Raphael H Ribas

Techniques for generating layout may include: receiving data corresponding to images modules; determining that a set of the image modules will fit a layout; assigning image modules from the set to the layout; determining a number of possible permutations of the image modules given one or more constraints associated with images in the set of image modules; selecting a number of candidate templates to accommodate the layout, where the number of candidate templates is based on the number of permutations; filling candidate templates with image modules from the set; receiving an input selecting one of the candidate templates containing image modules from the set; and outputting data for the selected candidate template, the data for generating a display of the selected candidate template.

Generating a layout

Techniques include: identifying scalable parts and unscalable parts of image modules that are to be scaled to fit within a fixed dimension; determining scaling factors that are to be applied to the scalable parts of the image modules to scale the image modules; applying the scaling factors to the scalable parts of the images modules to produce scaled image modules that fit within the fixed dimension, where the unscalable parts are unaffected by the scaling factors; and generating data for displaying the scaled image modules on a computing device display screen.

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