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US 7,256,824 B2Granted
Camera with eye position detector
AssigneeSilverbrook Research Pty Ltd
InventorKia Silverbrook
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Abstract
A method of processing an image taken with a digital camera including an eye position sensing means said method comprising the step of utilizing the eye position information within the sensed image to process the image in a spatially varying sense, depending upon said location information. The utilizing step can comprises utilizing the eye position information to locate an area of interest within said sensed image. The processing can include the placement of speech bubbles within said image.
Claims16
A camera comprising:
- (a) an image sensor adapted to capture a sensed image;
- (b) an eye position detector adapted to detect a position of a user's eye when the image sensor is capturing the sensed image and to generate eye position information indicative of that position;
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- (c) a processor adapted to:
- (i) receive the sensed image from the image sensor and the eye position information from the eye position detector;
- (ii) determine, with reference to the eye position information, an area of interest within the sensed image;
- (iii) process the sensed image by applying an image manipulation effect to at least part of the area of interest to produce a processed image;
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- (d) a manipulation instruction storage device reader adapted to read image manipulation instructions stored on a manipulation instruction storage device, wherein the manipulation instruction storage device comprises a card having a surface and at least one image manipulation instruction printed on the surface in encoded form.
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