PERFECTING THE OPTICS WITHIN A DIGITAL IMAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE USING FACE DETECTION
First Claim
1. Within a digital acquisition device with an adjustable optical system having an auto focusing mechanism, a method of perfecting the auto focus mechanism of the adjustable optical system as part of an image capture process using face detection in the image capture process to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters, comprising:
- identifying a plurality of groups of pixels including an image of a face within a digitally-captured image;
and determining image attributes corresponding to the group of pixels, the identifying of the pixels performed using one or more parameters including a size of the faces and a relative exposure of the faces.
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Abstract
Within a digital acquisition device, acquisition parameters of a digital image are perfected as part of an image capture process using face detection within the captured image to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters. Default values are determined of one or more image attributes of at least some portion of the digital image. Values of one or more camera acquisition parameters are determined. Groups of pixels are identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digitally-captured image. Corresponding image attributes to the groups of pixels are determined. One or more default image attribute values are compared with one or more captured image attribute values based upon analysis of the image of the face. Camera acquisition parameters are then adjusted corresponding to adjusting the image attribute values.
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20 Claims
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1. Within a digital acquisition device with an adjustable optical system having an auto focusing mechanism, a method of perfecting the auto focus mechanism of the adjustable optical system as part of an image capture process using face detection in the image capture process to achieve one or more desired image acquisition parameters, comprising:
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identifying a plurality of groups of pixels including an image of a face within a digitally-captured image; and determining image attributes corresponding to the group of pixels, the identifying of the pixels performed using one or more parameters including a size of the faces and a relative exposure of the faces. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A digital image acquisition device with an adjustable optical system having an auto focusing mechanism, at least one processor coupled to a corresponding digital storage device having stored thereon instruction which when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
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identifying a plurality of groups of pixels including an image of a face within a digitally-captured image; and determining image attributes corresponding to the group of pixels, the identifying of the pixels performed using one or more parameters including a size of the faces and a relative exposure of the faces. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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