US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Development on Nov. 25 for "Image crop" (Indiana, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,232, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Image crop" was invented by Shaoyuan Xu (West Lafayette, Ind.), Yang Cheng (West Lafayette, Ind.), Jan Allebach (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Qian Lin (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A saliency map of an image is generated. Saliency regions of the saliency map are identified. The saliency regions are merged into a combined saliency region. Candidate image crops of the image are generated based on the combined saliency region. An image crop of the image is selected from the c...