Patent ID: 7800687

Claim:
A video camera comprising: a. an image detector for capturing a target facial image from a video stream comprising a series of human facial images; b. a first software program in communication with said image detector for controlling the operation of the image detector in respect of at least tilt, pan, zoom and focus of said target facial image; c. a first memory device connected to a digital signal processor for retrievable storage of said first software program; d. said digital signal processor connected to the image detector for digitizing the target facial image as a digitized first half target facial image and a digitized second half target facial image; e. a second memory device connected to the digital signal processor for retrievable storage of said digitized first half target facial image and said digitized second half target facial image; and, f. a second software program in communication with said second memory device, said second software program comprising: i. a software control loop for exposure correction of the digitized first half target facial image into an exposure corrected digitized first half target facial image and for exposure correction of the digitized second half target facial image into an exposure corrected digitized second half target facial image; and, ii. means for merging said exposure corrected digitized first half target facial image and said exposure corrected digitized second half target facial image into an exposure corrected digitized target facial image.