Custom recommendations application for creating cards

1. A non transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by an electronic processor for creating a customized greeting card, comprising instructions for:

a processor to receive an electronic photo having a face image of a person and a background image that extends beyond the face image, wherein the face image comprises a subset of the electronic photo and is less than the whole electronic photo, and wherein the background image does not comprise any portion of the face image,

the processor to compare the face image and the background image of the whole electronic photo with a plurality of greeting card templates each having a corresponding design element;

for each greeting card template of the plurality of greeting card templates, the processor to:

determine, in a first step, whether a low granularity element intersects the face image, the low granularity element encompassing and extending beyond the corresponding design element of the greeting card template;

when it is determined in the first step that the low granularity element does not intersect the face image, accept the greeting card template;

in response to the determination in the first step that the low granularity element intersects the face image, determine, in a second step, whether the face image intersects with child rectangles nested within the low granularity element, the child rectangles representing the corresponding design element of the greeting card template;

when it is determined in the second step that the nested child rectangles intersect the face image, reject the greeting card template; and

when it is determined in the second step that the nested child rectangles do not intersect the face image, accept the greeting card template;

based on the first and second steps, the processor to reject one or more of the plurality of greeting card templates, each of the one or more rejected greeting card templates having the corresponding design element that overlaps the face image, and to accept two or more of the plurality of greeting card templates, each of the two or more accepted greeting card templates having the corresponding design element that does not overlap the face image; and

the processor to display the two or more accepted greeting card templates, each of the two or more accepted greeting card templates including the whole electronic photo including the face image and the background image in a photo slot, wherein the displaying of the two or more accepted greeting card templates is performed without displaying the one or more rejected greeting card templates.

2. The non transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 1 further including instructions for the processor to display the two or more accepted greeting card templates only if the face image is not cropped by a template of the two more accepted greeting card templates.

3. The non transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 1 further including instructions for:

positioning the electronic photo with respect to one of the plurality of greeting card templates to determine multiple positions of the electronic photo where the corresponding design element of the one of the greeting card templates does not overlap the face image;

determining a leftmost position and a rightmost position of the electronic photo without having a portion of the corresponding design element of the one of the greeting card templates overlap a portion of the face image; and

automatically displaying the electronic photo combined with the one of the greeting card templates at a midsection between the determined leftmost and rightmost positions.

4. The non transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 3 further including instructions for the processor to analyze coordinates of the corresponding design element of each of the plurality of greeting card templates, and to position the electronic photo based on the coordinates.

5. The non transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 1 further including instructions for the processor to use an image processing server to identify portions of the electronic photo that has the face image.

6. The non transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 5 further including instructions for the image processing server to use a cloud computing web service.

7. The non transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 1 further including instructions for the processor to access the plurality of greeting card templates from a data file and compare the plurality of greeting card templates to the electronic photo.

8. The non transitory computer readable medium as specified in claim 1 further including instructions for the processor to compare the plurality of greeting card templates to the electronic photo, and display the two or more accepted greeting card templates combined with the electronic photo in an order of preference based on criteria.

9. A server, comprising:

a processor configured to receive an electronic photo having a face image of a person and a background image that extends beyond the face image, wherein the face image comprises a subset of the electronic photo and is less than the whole electronic photo, and wherein the background image does not comprise any portion of the face image;

the processor configured to compare the face image and the background image of the whole electronic photo with a plurality of greeting card templates each having a corresponding design element;

for each greeting card template of the plurality of greeting card templates, the processor configured to:

determine, in a first step, whether a low granularity element intersects the face image, the low granularity element encompassing and extending beyond the corresponding design element of the greeting card template;

when it is determined in the first step that the low granularity element does not intersect the face image, accept the greeting card template;

in response to the determination in the first step that the low granularity element intersects the face image, determine, in a second step, whether the face image intersects with child rectangles nested within the low granularity element, the child rectangles representing the corresponding design element of the greeting card template;

when it is determined in the second step that the nested child rectangles intersect the face image, reject the greeting card template; and

when it is determined in the second step that the nested child rectangles do not intersect the face image, accept the greeting card template;

based on the first and second steps, the processor configured to reject one or more of the plurality of greeting card templates, each of the one or more rejected greeting card templates having the corresponding design element that overlaps the face image, and to accept two or more of the plurality of greeting card templates, each of the two or more accepted greeting card templates having the corresponding design element that does not overlap the face image; and

the processor configured to display the two or more accepted greeting card templates, each of the two or more accepted greeting card templates including the whole electronic photo including the face image and the background image in a photo slot, wherein the displaying of the two or more accepted greeting card templates is performed without displaying the one or more rejected greeting card templates.

10. The server as specified in claim 9 wherein the processor is configured to display the two or more accepted greeting card templates only if the face image is not cropped by a template of the two or more accepted greeting card templates.

11. The server as specified in claim 9 wherein the processor is configured to:

position the electronic photo in the photo slot with respect to one of the plurality of accepted greeting card templates to determine multiple positions of the electronic photo where the corresponding design element of the one of the greeting card templates does not overlap the face image;

determine a leftmost position and a rightmost position of the electronic photo in the photo slot without having a portion of the corresponding design element of the one of the greeting card templates overlap a portion of the face image; and

automatically display the electronic photo combined with the one of the greeting card templates at a midsection between the determined leftmost and rightmost positions.

12. The server as specified in claim 11 wherein the processor is configured to analyze coordinates of the corresponding design element of each of the plurality of greeting card templates, and to position the electronic photo based on the coordinates.

13. The server as specified in claim 9 wherein the processor is configured to use an image processing server to identify portions of the electronic photo that has the face image.

14. The server as specified in claim 13 further including an image processing server configured to identify portions of the electronic photo that has the face image and use a cloud computing web service.

15. The server as specified in claim 9 wherein the processor is configured to access the plurality of greeting card templates from a data file and compare the plurality of greeting card templates to the electronic photo.

16. The server as specified in claim 9 wherein the processor is configured to compare the plurality of greeting card templates to the electronic photo, and display the two or more accepted greeting card templates combined with the electronic photo in an order of preference based on criteria.