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Detecting Red Eye Filter and Apparatus Using Meta-Data

  • US 20110134271A1
  • Filed: 12/01/2010
  • Published: 06/09/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/09/1997
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A portable digital apparatus having no photographic film, comprising:

  • (a) a housing;

    (b) a source of light coupled to the housing for providing illumination during image capturing;

    (c) a digital image capturing apparatus within the housing;

    (d) at least one of an image display and an image output coupled to the housing; and

    (e) an auto-focus mechanism(f) a red-eye filter within the housing for modifying pixels indicative of a red-eye phenomenon within said at least one of said image display and said image output, wherein the red eye filter is configured to modify an area within the image indicative of red-eye phenomenon based on a metadata analysis, including;

    (i) a comparison of a calculated range of expected sizes of said area based on distance information as recorded by the auto-focus mechanism and on one or more stored human facial anthropometrical values; and

    (ii) a search for a second eye, a surrounding face, lips, nostrils or another associated peripheral region, or combinations thereof, at an estimated distance based on said distance information as recorded by the auto-focus mechanism.

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