Patent ID: 8363952

Claim:
Within a processor-based, digital image acquisition device, a method of acquiring and displaying a face recognition result in real time based on identifying a candidate partial face region within an acquired digital image based on analysis of a series preview images, comprising: acquiring and analyzing with a digital image acquisition device a digital image of a scene that includes a partial face image from a sequential stream of multiple preview images of approximately the same scene acquired within one second prior to capture of the digital image; within the digital image acquisition device, based on the analyzing, automatically cropping the partial face image or removing one or more non-facial items from the digital image, or both, and thereby generating a more full-size partial face image; applying face recognition by comparing the more full-size partial face image to one or more images stored within a face image library; and displaying in real-time the digital image along with a face image, or another unique identifier and/or biometric data, or combinations thereof, extracted from a different digital image stored in the face image library that uniquely identifies the face in the digital image.