Digital image acquisition control and correction method and apparatus
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1. A method of disqualifying an unsatisfactory scene as an image acquisition control for a camera, comprising:
- acquiring a present image of a scene including a face region;
detecting the face region;
identifying one or more groups of pixels corresponding to a face feature region within the face region, including a mouth or one or both eyes or combinations thereof;
determining whether the face feature region has an unsatisfactory configuration; and
if so, thendisqualifying the scene as a candidate for full resolution capture while the face feature region has the unsatisfactory configuration, andwherein the present image comprises a subsampled version of a same scene as a full resolution image, wherein the present image comprises a reduced number of pixels compared with said full resolution image, such that said present image comprises a relatively low resolution preview image, and the disqualifying comprises delaying capture of a full resolution image of the scene for one or both of a predetermined or a calculated period for the unsatisfactory configuration to change.
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An unsatisfactory scene is disqualified as an image acquisition control for a camera. An image is acquired. One or more mouth regions are determined. The mouth regions are analyzed to determined whether they are frowning, and if so, then the scene is disqualified as a candidate for a processed, permanent image while the mouth is completing the frowning.
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1. A method of disqualifying an unsatisfactory scene as an image acquisition control for a camera, comprising:
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acquiring a present image of a scene including a face region; detecting the face region; identifying one or more groups of pixels corresponding to a face feature region within the face region, including a mouth or one or both eyes or combinations thereof; determining whether the face feature region has an unsatisfactory configuration; and
if so, thendisqualifying the scene as a candidate for full resolution capture while the face feature region has the unsatisfactory configuration, and wherein the present image comprises a subsampled version of a same scene as a full resolution image, wherein the present image comprises a reduced number of pixels compared with said full resolution image, such that said present image comprises a relatively low resolution preview image, and the disqualifying comprises delaying capture of a full resolution image of the scene for one or both of a predetermined or a calculated period for the unsatisfactory configuration to change. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. One or more processor readable storage devices having processor readable code embodied thereon, said processor readable code for programming one or more processors to perform a method of disqualifying an unsatisfactory scene as an image acquisition control for a camera, comprising:
acquiring a present image of a scene including a face region; detecting the face region; identifying one or more groups of pixels corresponding to a face feature region within the face region, including a mouth or one or both eves or combinations thereof; determining whether the face feature region has an unsatisfactory configuration; and
if so, thendisqualifying the scene as a candidate for full resolution capture while the face feature region has the unsatisfactory configuration, and wherein the present image comprises a subsampled version of a same scene as a full resolution image, wherein the present image comprises a reduced number of pixels compared with said full resolution image, such that said present image comprises a relatively low resolution preview image, and the disqualifying comprises delaying capture of a full resolution image of the scene for one or both of a predetermined or a calculated period for the unsatisfactory configuration to change. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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