Patent ID: 7865036

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: (a) a lens; (b) an image sensor; (c) a processor and (d) a computer readable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for programming the processor to perform a method of digital image artifact correction, the method comprising: acquiring a digital image, including capturing a digital image using the lens and the image sensor or receiving a digital image captured by an optical system of another device, or combinations thereof; identifying a candidate red-eye defect region in said image; identifying a region of high intensity pixels having at least a threshold intensity value within a sub-region of the image that also includes the candidate red-eye region; analyzing an eye-related characteristic of the sub-region that comprises a combined hybrid region including said candidate red-eye region and said region of high intensity pixels; identifying said combined hybrid region as a flash artifact region based on said analyzing of said eye-related characteristic; and applying flash artifact correction to said flash artifact region.