No good at composing photographs? Are heads or feet always cut off on your holiday snaps? An 鈥渁utocratic鈥� camera that does the image cropping for you is on the way (WO 02/052835).
You 鈥渋nitialise鈥� Hewlett-Packard鈥檚 photo-cropping system by pressing a button while pointing the camera at a typical subject type, such as a single human figure in the foreground. The camera then uses pre-programmed composition rules to frame the scene so that the figure is in the centre, with 鈥渁rtistically positioned鈥� borders.
Among other types of shot, the camera is designed to cope with close-ups of faces so that they鈥檙e not cut off at the forehead, for example.
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