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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Applicants:
Prabindh Sundareson, Thiruparankundram, IN;
Shanmuga Sundaram Mahendran, Kumbakonam, IN;
Inventors:
Prabindh Sundareson, Thiruparankundram, IN;
Shanmuga Sundaram Mahendran, Kumbakonam, IN;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention generates object-focused thumbnails from input images reflecting the mood and intention of the user, based on the original high-resolution picture. The invention includes edge detection, clustering detected edges into regions, ranking the regions and forming the thumbnail from a portion of the input image having a predetermined thumbnail size centered at a center of the highest ranking region. With this invention, the thumbnail accurately captures the focus of the image.