Patent ID: 7310443

Claim:
A method for performing red eye correction in an image, comprising: providing a digital image, the digital image being represented by electrical signals in a computer system; identifying a red eye region in the digital image; and applying a color correction to each pixel in the identified red eye region; and wherein the identifying of the red eye region comprises: identifying hard red areas, each of the hard red areas comprising a grouping of pixels having a color defined within a polyhedral region of a three dimensional hue-saturation-intensity (HSI) color space having a first axis defining hue, a second axis defining intensity, and a third axis defining saturation; and excluding ones of the hard red areas from being identified as the red eye region when a virtual weight center of the hard red area deviates more than a selected percentage from a geometric center of the hard red area, the virtual weight center having an x-coordinate equal to a sum of an x-coordinate of each pixel of the hard red area divided by a number of pixels in the hard red area, and a y-coordinate equal to a sum of a y-coordinate of each of the pixels within the hard red area divided by the number of pixels in the hard red area.