Patent ID: 8620038

Claim:
A method, for modifying digital image comprising: (a) detecting a face in the digital image; (b) establishing one or more regions of interest in the face in the digital image; (c) detecting one or more features in the regions of interest in the face in the digital image, said one or more features including one or more facial features of interest and one or more other facial features, so that the one or more facial features of interest are located and the one or more other facial features are located based on proximity to the one or more facial features of interest; (d) isolating the one or more features in the one or more regions of interest in the face in the digital image, through detection of deviation of skin color by determining gradient magnitude (e) augmenting the face in the digit image by smoothing one or more selective regions in the face in the digital image; and (f) re-blending into the digital image the one or more features in the face in the digital image to produce one or more altered areas in the face in the digital image, to define a modified digital image.