Patent ID: 8648938

Claim:
A method of detecting and correcting an eye defect within a digital image that has been acquired with a cell phone equipped with a digital camera and that comprises a multiplicity of pixels indicative of luminance and color, the multiplicity of pixels forming various shapes within the image, the method comprising: acquiring with said cell phone equipped with said digital camera said digital image including said multiplicity of pixels indicative of luminance and color; detecting a candidate eye defect region based on color or shape or both within the digital image; analyzing meta-data information including image acquisition device-specific information including image acquisition device-specific information, including f-stop, aperture, exposure, gain, white balance or color transformation, or focusing distance information at a time of acquisition, or combinations thereof; analyzing anthropometric information including statistics relating to at least one relationship between said focusing distance information at the time of acquisition and a location of a second detected eye, lips, nostrils or a surrounding face, or combinations thereof; utilizing said meta-data information and anthropometric information to determine whether said candidate eye defect region is suspected as including an eye defect region; and filtering said candidate eye defect region from the digital image.