ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,523, issued on May 6, was assigned to Canva Pty Ltd (Surry Hills, Australia).
"Systems and methods for automatically cropping digital images" was invented by Sanchit Sanchit (Vienna) and Paul Angerer (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a computer implemented method for automatically generating a cropped version of an input image. The method includes processing the input image to detect a salient region of the input image and generating a set of crop candidates based on the salient region of the input image, each crop candidate defining a different image crop. A set of candidate scores is calculated, each corres...