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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2007
Tetsuya Tsuji, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Tetsuya Tsuji, Kanagawa-ken, JP;
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Trimming is automatically performed on an image by inferring a person and a background in which the photographer of the image has interest. Facial images FPand FPare detected in a whole image P, and the vertical direction of the whole image P is judged based the facial images FPand FP. Further, processing is performed using the information about the vertical direction to discriminate whether the composition of the whole image P is portrait-mode composition or landscape-mode composition. If it is judged that the facial image FPis positioned on the lower side of the whole image, and if a composition discrimination unit discriminates that the composition of the whole image P is landscape-mode composition, trimming is automatically performed using a trimming frame TGthat has portrait-mode composition.