US 2017/0249768 A1 · IMAGE MANIPULATION FOR ELECTRONIC DISPLAY

Abstract

The density of images to display can be increased, and distractions reduced, through intelligent cropping or manipulation of at least some of the images. For objects such as dresses represented in the images, the density can be increased by cropping away regions of background outside the object region(s). Locating regions representing the face and legs of the wearer can enable cropping of the top and/or bottom of the image in order to cause the dress to occupy the majority of the area of the image, and can provide for a level of consistency of the sizes of the objects across the images, regardless of the sources of the images. Representative colors of the objects can also be selected to adjust the background color, in order to provide for easy distinction between the images while not providing contrasting or unappealing colors that take away from the aesthetics of the objects.

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Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

at least one processor;
and
memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to:
receive a first image that includes a representation of an object;
generate a second image having a lower color depth with respect to the first image;
analyze the second image to locate regions of pixels within a boundary associated with skin tone color values;
generate a binary skin mask indicating the regions of pixels;
scan, from at least a middle row of the binary skin mask, rows of pixels to locate features corresponding to skin feature locations;
compare the features to corresponding positions in a grayscale version of the first image to determine whether pixels of non-background color are located in corresponding rows of the second image;
and
determine a location of a representation of a bodily feature based at least in part by locating rows having skin feature regions of sufficient width, with background color pixels outside the skin feature regions in respective rows of pixels.

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A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a first image that includes a representation of an object;
generating a second image having a lower color depth with respect to the first image;
analyzing the second image to locate regions of pixels within a boundary associated with skin tone color values;
generating a binary skin mask indicating the regions of pixels;
scanning, from at least a middle row of the binary skin mask, rows of pixels to locate features corresponding to skin feature locations;
comparing the features to corresponding positions in a grayscale version of the first image to determine whether pixels of non-background color are located in corresponding rows of the second image;
and
determining a location of a representation of a bodily feature based at least in part by locating rows having skin feature regions of sufficient width, with background color pixels outside the skin feature regions in respective rows of pixels.

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A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, causes the computing system to:

receive a first image that includes a representation of an object;
generate a second image having a lower color depth with respect to the first image;
analyze the second image to locate regions of pixels within a boundary associated with skin tone color values;
generate a binary skin mask indicating the regions of pixels;
scan, from at least a middle row of the binary skin mask, rows of pixels to locate features corresponding to skin feature locations;
compare the features to corresponding positions in a grayscale version of the first image to determine whether pixels of non-background color are located in corresponding rows of the second image;
and
determine a location of a representation of a bodily feature based at least in part by locating rows having skin feature regions of sufficient width, with background color pixels outside the skin feature regions in respective rows of pixels.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Image manipulation for electronic display

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Image manipulation for electronic display

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Abstract

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