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Digital image acquisition control and correction method and apparatus

  • US 7,804,983 B2
  • Filed: 07/26/2006
  • Issued: 09/28/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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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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