Red eye filter method and apparatus
AssigneeDigitalOptics Corporation Europe Limited
InventorMichael J. DeLuca
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Abstract
A digital camera has an integral flash and stores and displays a digital image. Under certain conditions, a flash photograph taken with the camera may result in a red-eye phenomenon due to a reflection within an eye of a subject of the photograph. The digital camera has a red-eye filter which analyzes the stored image for the red-eye phenomenon and modifies the stored image to eliminate the red-eye phenomenon by changing the red area to black. The modification of the image is enabled when a photograph is taken under conditions indicative of the red-eye phenomenon. The modification is subject to anti-falsing analysis which further examines the area around the red-eye area for indicia of the eye of the subject.
Claims20
A portable digital camera having no photographic film comprising:
- an integral flash for providing illumination during recording of an image without photographic film;
- a digital image capturing apparatus for recording said image;
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- a red-eye filter for detecting a red eye defect and generating and storing on the camera a red eye corrected image.
A portable digital camera having no photographic film comprising:
- an integral flash for providing illumination during recording of an image without photographic film;
- a digital image capturing apparatus for recording said image;
- a red-eye filter for detecting a red eye defect and generating a red eye corrected image;
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- an integral image display for displaying the red eye corrected image.
A portable digital camera having no photographic film comprising:
- an integral flash for providing illumination during acquisition of an image without photographic film;
- a digital image capturing apparatus for acquiring said image;
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- a red-eye filter for detecting a red eye defect within said image and generating a red eye corrected image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.