Patent ID: 7567707

Claim:
An image processing method comprising: with a computer processing component, for each of a plurality of pixels of a digital image, assigning a probability to the pixel of the pixel being in a red eye as a function of a color of the pixel; for a patch of the image comprising a region of contiguous pixels which have at least a threshold probability of being within a red eye, classifying the patch with a classifier module trained with candidate redeyes assigned manually to one of three classes, the classes including an actual redeye class, a face error class, and a background error class, to distinguish patches which have a probability of including a red eye from other patches which have a probability of including a face error and patches which have a probability of including a background error; and for a patch of the image identified by the classifier module as having a probability of including a red eye, determining a correction to apply to pixels in the region of contiguous pixels.