Digital image acquisition control and correction method and apparatus
AssigneeDigitalOptics Corporation Europe Limited
InventorsEran Steinberg, Peter Corcoran, Petronel Bigioi
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Abstract
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.
Claims27
A method of selectively disqualifying a scene as a candidate for permanent capture, storage or processing, or combinations thereof, the method comprising:
- detecting and tracking a face, partial face or eye within a scene in a preacquisition stage, in a video stream or within a collection of preview images, or combinations thereof;
- performing a shape analysis of the eye;
- determining that the eye is currently in a blinking process;
- rejecting the scene as a candidate for digital image capture due to the blinking;
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- automatically acquiring a digital image after delaying for a period of time, wherein the delaying of said acquiring the digital image corresponds to an estimated time for said blinking process to end based on said shape analysis of said eye.
One or more non-transitory processor-readable media having code embedded therein for programming a processor to perform a method of selectively disqualifying a scene as a candidate for permanent capture, storage or processing, or combinations thereof, the method comprising:
- detecting and tracking a face, partial face or eye within a scene in a preacquisition stage, in a video stream or within a collection of preview images, or combinations thereof;
- performing a shape analysis of the eye;
- determining that the eye is currently in a blinking process;
- rejecting the scene as a candidate for digital image capture due to the blinking;
- and
- automatically acquiring a digital image after delaying for a period of time, wherein the delaying of said acquiring the digital image corresponds to an estimated time for said blinking process to end based on said shape analysis of said eye.
A digital image acquisition device, comprising:
- a lens and image sensor for acquiring digital images;
- a processor;
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- one or more processor-readable media having code embedded therein for programming the processor to perform a method of selectively disqualifying a scene as a candidate for permanent capture, storage or processing, or combinations thereof, wherein the method comprises:
- detecting and tracking a face, partial face or eye within a scene in a preacquisition stage, in a video stream or within a collection of preview images, or combinations thereof;
- performing a shape analysis of the eye;
- determining that the eye is currently in a blinking process;
- rejecting the scene as a candidate for digital image capture due to the blinking;
- and
- automatically acquiring a digital image after delaying for a period of time, wherein the delaying of said acquiring the digital image corresponds to an estimated time for said blinking process to end based on said shape analysis of said eye.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.