Patent ID: 8180173

Claim:
A method for digital image flash artefact eye defect correction comprising: acquiring a digital image; identifying one or more candidate eye defect regions in the image comprising one or more flash artefact regions including pixels in one or more pupil regions that are red, yellow, golden or white, or combinations thereof; determining whether the image is blurred; correcting the one or more candidate eye defect regions, including replacing said red, yellow, golden or white pixels with corrected pixels to form one or more corrected regions, wherein the corrected regions comprise probabilistically uncertain defect pixels utilizing between 10% and 70% information derived from pixels of the acquired digital image, as well as probabilistically certain pixels not utilizing information from pixels of the acquired digital image, and uncorrected glint pixels having a luminance above a certain threshold to be classified as certain glint pixels; and responsive to the image being blurred, anisotropically blurring the one or more corrected regions of the image.