Article: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Licenses "Seam Carving" Technology to Adobe Systems.

Technology used in new Content-Aware Scaling feature of Photoshop[R] CS4

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. announced today that it has entered into a license agreement with Adobe Systems, providing Adobe[R] non-exclusive rights to Mitsubishi Electric's "Seam Carving" technology used to preserve key parts of an image as it is resized. Adobe uses the technology in a new feature it calls "Content-Aware Scaling" available in the latest version of Photoshop[R], which began shipping in October.

The technology is an algorithm for resizing images -- still or video -- that automatically recomposes an image as it is scaled, ...

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