Patent ID: 8660319

Claim:
A method for modifying digital images comprising: (a) detecting a face in a first digital image and detecting a face in a second digital image, if the location of face(s) in the first digital image or the second digital image has not already been established; (b) establishing a plurality of regions of interest in the face in the first digital image and establishing a plurality of regions of interest in the face in the second digital image; (c) detecting one or more features in the plurality of regions of interest in the face in the first digital image, said one or more features including one or more facial features of interest and one or more other facial features, and detecting one or more corresponding features in the plurality of regions of interest in the face in the second digital image, said detection of the one or more features in the first digital image and one or more corresponding features in the second digital image involving the use of image gradient intensities to detect a plurality of individual features if the location of features in the first digital image or the second digital image is not previously established; and (d) modifying the first digital image by either: (i) modifying one or more features in the face in the first digital image by combining the one or more features in the first digital image with corresponding features in the plurality of regions of interest in the face in the second digital image by blending the one or more features of the second digital image into the first digital image, thereby defining a modified digital image; or (ii) isolating from modification at least one of the plurality of regions of interest in the first digital image and using information of one or more features from the second digital image to modify the first digital image in accordance with (i) other than the regions of interest isolated from modification.