Patent ID: 8005265
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of digital image processing using face detection and tracking to achieve a desired image rendering parameter, comprising: using a processor-based, handheld device; identifying a group of pixels that correspond to an image of a face within a digitally-detected image; generating in-camera, capturing or otherwise obtaining in-camera a collection of low resolution images including said face; tracking said face within said collection of low resolution images; based on the tracking, determining initial values of one or more parameters of at least some of the pixels; determining an initial rendering parameter of the digitally-detected image based on the initial values; automatically adjusting values of the one or more parameters of pixels within the digitally-detected image based upon comparison of the initial rendering parameter with the desired rendering parameter to generate a modified image, and storing, rendering, printing, displaying, transmitting, or communicating the detected image, the modified image, or one or more further processed versions of the detected image or the modified image, or combinations thereof.