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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
May. 16, 2011
Applicants:
Yichen Wei, Beijing, CN;
Jie Feng, Beijing, CN;
Litian Tao, Beijing, CN;
Jian Sun, Beijing, CN;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/3233 (2013.01); G06T 7/0081 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01);
Abstract
A computing device configured to determine, for each of a plurality of locations in an image, a saliency measure based at least on a cost of composing parts of the image in the location from parts of the image outside of the location is described herein. The computing device is further configured to select one or more of the locations as representing salient objects of the image based at least on the saliency measures.