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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2009
Kumar Mrityunjay, Rochester, NY (US);
David D. Conger, Grosse Point Woods, MI (US);
Jiebo Luo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Rodney L. Miller, Fairport, NY (US);
Kumar Mrityunjay, Rochester, NY (US);
David D. Conger, Grosse Point Woods, MI (US);
Jiebo Luo, Pittsford, NY (US);
Rodney L. Miller, Fairport, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for resizing an input digital image to form an output digital image with an output aspect ratio, comprising: determining a number of rows or columns that need to be reduced from the input digital image; determining an image energy map for the input digital image; repeatedly determining a seam path responsive to the image energy map and removing pixels along the determined seam path to determine the output digital image, wherein the determined seam path satisfies a constraint that a directional image gradient is less than a gradient threshold for each pixel in the seam path, until either the determined number of rows or columns has been reduced or no valid seam path can be found; and cropping or scaling the output digital image to the output aspect ratio if the determined number of rows or columns was not reduced.