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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2010
Claude S. Fillion, Rochester, NY (US);
Vishal Monga, Webster, NY (US);
Raja Bala, Pittsford, NY (US);
Claude S. Fillion, Rochester, NY (US);
Vishal Monga, Webster, NY (US);
Raja Bala, Pittsford, NY (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system and method for resizing a digitally represented color image are presented. A color image with pixels defined by luminance and at least one chrominance value is received. For each pixel of the color image, a luminance spatial variation and respective chrominance spatial variations in the respective neighborhood of the each pixel are computed. The luminance spatial variation and the respective chrominance spatial variations are combined to produce a respective importance value for each pixel. Selected pixels are identified based upon their respective importance values and are removed by seam carving of the color image. The seam carving identifies seams of pixels based upon the respective importance values of pixels within the seams of pixels to create a resized color image. The resized color image is produced to an image output device.