Camera equipped with red-eye correction feature

• US 20050062856A1
• Filed: 09/17/2004
• Published: 03/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsushita, Takafumi
• Application Number:
  US10/942,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20050062856A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/193 Preprocessing; Feature extraction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/62 Retouching, i.e. modification of isolated colours only or in isolated picture areas only
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/624 Red-eye correction control of camera based on recognised facial parts H04N23/611
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2101/00 Still video cameras

Abstract

The camera is equipped with a red-eye correction feature. The camera has an imaging unit for acquiring digital image data of a subject, a first folder for storing original image data that has undergone no image processing or default image processing alone on the digital image data, an automatic red-eye correction unit for automatically detecting red-eye on a photographed subject image in the original image data and automatically modifying the thus detected red-eye to obtain corrected digital image data, a second folder for storing at least one of the corrected digital image data and red-eye correction information related to the original image data and used to perform the automatic red-eye correction, the second folder being separate from the first folder.

Claims

1. A camera equipped with a red-eye correction feature, said camera comprising:

imaging means for photographing a subject to acquire digital image data;

a first folder for storing original image data which has undergone no image processing or default image processing alone on said digital image data;

automatic red-eye correction means for performing an automatic red-eye correction on said original image data by detecting automatically red-eye on a photographed subject image in said original image data and modifying automatically the thus detected red-eye to obtain corrected digital image data which has undergone said automatic red-eye correction; and

a second folder for storing at least one of said corrected digital image data and red-eye correction information related to said original image data and used to perform said automatic red-eye correction, said second folder being separate from said first folder.

2. The camera equipped with the red-eye correction feature according to claim 1, further comprising:

selection means for selecting whether said second folder stores said corrected digital image data and said red-eye correction information, or said red-eye correction information alone.

3. The camera equipped with the red-eye correction feature according to claim 1, wherein said original image data is Exif image data, and said selection means selects whether said second folder stores said corrected digital image data and said red-eye correction information, or said red-eye correction information alone, and alternatively, whether said red-eye correction information including at least presence or absence of said red-eye correction is recorded in an Exif tag.

4. The camera equipped with the red-eye correction feature according to claim 1, wherein said red-eye correction information includes at least one of presence or absence of said red-eye correction, a difference mask between said corrected digital image data and said original image data, and information used to create a red-eye-corrected image.

5. The camera equipped with the red-eye correction feature according to claim 1, wherein said red-eye correction information includes at least one selected from the group consisting of information on presence or absence of red-eye detection, information on presence or absence of red-eye modification, information on presence or absence of said red-eye correction, information on a red-eye detection position, information on a red-eye detection area, red-eye position information, information on detected red-eye count, information on a detected face position, information on a detected face area, information on face position, red-eye correction mask information, and degree of red-eye modification.