Automated image cropping and sharing

摘要

Technologies for automated cropping and sharing of images include an imaging device configured to capture a digital image, recognize one or more subjects represented in the image, determine the social network groups associated with the subjects of the digital image, and crop the digital image to generate one or more sub-images. Each of the sub-images includes subjects associated with a particular social network group. Each of the sub-images may be shared with the relevant social network group. Subjects may include persons, objects, or events, and may be recognized through computer vision techniques as well as using contextual data. The imaging device may receive social network data from one or more social network servers, which may be used to determine the relevant social network groups. The imaging device may also exclude subjects from the cropped sub-images based on one or more content policies. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

主权项

1. An imaging device for automated image cropping, the imaging device comprising:
an image capture module to capture a digital image; a subject recognition module to recognize a first subject and a second subject represented in the digital image; a social network module to (i) determine a first social network group to which the first subject is associated and (ii) determine a second social network group to which the second subject is associated, wherein the first subject is not associated with the second social network group; an image crop module to crop, based on a composition rule policy, the digital image to (i) generate a first sub-image including the first subject and excluding the second subject, the composition rule policy comprising a set of rules that define the composition of the first sub-image based on the recognized first subject and (ii) generate a second sub-image including the second subject and excluding the first subject, the composition rule policy comprising a set of rules that define the composition of the second sub-image based on the recognized second subject; and an image sharing module to (i) share the first sub-image with the first social network group and (ii) share the second sub-image with the second social network group.