Patents by Inventor Clint Chester N. Chua

Clint Chester N. Chua has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for automatically cropping images
    Patent number: 9552622
    Abstract: An image cropping technique includes detecting, at a computer system including one or more processors, faces within an image and evaluating, at the computer system, the faces to determine if any of the faces correspond to people within a user's online social network. The technique additionally includes defining, at the computer system, a first crop region including a subset of the faces when at least one face within the subset of the faces corresponds to a first person in the user's online social network and cropping, at the computer system, the image based on the first crop region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Clint Chester N Chua, Sally Goldman, Jonathan Albert Wray
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY CROPPING IMAGES
    Publication number: 20150262333
    Abstract: An image cropping technique includes detecting, at a computer system including one or more processors, faces within an image and evaluating, at the computer system, the faces to determine if any of the faces correspond to people within a user's online social network. The technique additionally includes defining, at the computer system, a first crop region including a subset of the faces when at least one face within the subset of the faces corresponds to a first person in the user's online social network and cropping, at the computer system, the image based on the first crop region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Clint Chester N. Chua, Sally Goldman, Jonathan Albert Wray
  • Method and system for automatically cropping images
    Patent number: 9070182
    Abstract: An image cropping technique includes detecting, at a computer system including one or more processors, faces within an image and evaluating, at the computer system, the faces to determine if any of the faces correspond to people within a user's online social network. The technique additionally includes defining, at the computer system, a first crop region including a subset of the faces when at least one face within the subset of the faces corresponds to a first person in the user's online social network and cropping, at the computer system, the image based on the first crop region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Clint Chester N. Chua, Sally Goldman, Jonathan Albert Wray