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FACE TRACKER AND PARTIAL FACE TRACKER FOR RED-EYE FILTER METHOD AND APPARATUS

  • US 20100053368A1
  • Filed: 08/31/2009
  • Published: 03/04/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A portable digital image capturing device having no photographic film, comprising:

  • a flash for providing illumination during image acquisition;

    an optical system including a lens and an image sensor for capturing a main digital image;

    a face tracker for identifying one or more face regions within a series of one or more relatively low resolution reference images, and predicting said one or more face regions within the main digital image;

    a face analyzer for determining one or more partial face regions within the one or more face regions each including at least one eye; and

    a red-eye filter for modifying an area within the main digital image indicative of a red-eye phenomenon based on an analysis of the one or more partial face regions within the one or more face regions identified and predicted by the face tracker.

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