Patent ID: 8311325

Claim:
A method for automatically detecting and correcting red eye in a photo taking process, characterized in that, information of an image in preview mode and information of an image actually taken are used to perform automatic red eye detection and correction, comprising: providing a camera having a preview function to perform a preview image sequence; acquiring a shutter pressing time by the camera; acquiring an image from a preview image sequence, which is closest to the shutter pressing time by the camera, and regarding the image as a correction reference image; acquiring an image actually taken with a flash lamp by the camera and regarding the image as an image to be corrected; performing red eye detection by the camera according to the information of the correction reference image and the image to be corrected, and determining a red eye area; and performing red eye correction on the detected red eye area by the camera, and utilizing the information of the correction reference image and the image to be corrected.