Patent ID: 8189927
Filing Date: 2012-05-29
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method of face categorization and annotation of a face image library, comprising: acquiring with a digital image acquisition device a digital image of a scene that includes a face; acquiring a series of relatively low resolution reference images captured around the time of capture of said digital image; extracting candidate face regions from successive frames of said reference images; maintaining information from the successive frames of said reference images, including location data and a cumulative confidence level that the candidate face regions extracted from said successive frame of said series of reference images comprise said face, and based on the information from the series of reference images, determining that said face is present within said digital image; automatically cropping the face or removing one or more non-facial items from the digital image, or both, and thereby generating a full-size face image; and storing the full-size face image with other indicia identifying a person corresponding to the face in a face image library.