Patent ID: 9712743
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: A61B,G06F,G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of processing a digital image using face detection, the method comprising: identifying a first group of pixels that correspond to a first face region within a digital image; determining one or more first initial color values for pixels in the first group of pixels; based on the one or more first initial color values for the pixels in the first group of pixels, determining a first skin tone for the first face region; identifying a second group of pixels that correspond to a second face region within the digital image; determining one or more second initial color values for pixels in the second group of pixels; based on the one or more second initial color values for the pixels in the second group of pixels, determining a second skin tone for the second face region; determining whether the first skin tone is lighter than the second skin tone; and in response to determining that the first skin tone is lighter than the second skin tone: