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Modification of post-viewing parameters for digital images using image region or feature information

  • US 9,692,964 B2
  • Filed: 09/04/2015
  • Issued: 06/27/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for re-composing an image, the method comprising:

  • continuously acquiring a plurality of images with selectively adjusted exposures by;

    as a camera acquires the plurality of images;

    calculating an overall exposure for at least one image of the plurality of images;

    determining whether a first image, of the at least one image, depicts a face;

    in response to determining that the first image, of the at least one image, depicts the face;

    identifying, in the first image, of the at least one image, a first region in which the face is depicted;

    calculating a face exposure for the first region in the first image;

    based, at least in part, on the overall exposure and the face exposure, determining a first adjusted exposure for at least one region of a second image to be acquired;

    acquiring a second image, of the plurality of images, using the first adjusted exposure;

    identifying, in the acquired second image, a second region which corresponds to the first region depicting the face;

    based, at least in part, on the first image and the second image, generating a re-composed image by replacing at least one group of pixels in the first region in the first image with adjusted exposure pixels of the second image; and

    displaying the re-composed image on a device display.

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