Patent ID: 7616233

Claim:
Within a processor-based digital image acquisition device, a method of enhancing parameters of a digital image as part of a post-image capture process using face detection within said captured image to achieve one or more desired image parameters, the method comprising: determining default values of relative exposure or size, or both, of at least some portion of said digital image; determining the values of one or more camera acquisition parameters; generating in-camera, capturing or otherwise obtaining in-camera a collection of low resolution images including an image of a face; tracking said face within said collection of low resolution images; identifying a plurality of groups of pixels that correspond to said face within a digitally-captured main image based on the tracking of said face within said collection of low resolution images, and determining values corresponding to relative exposure or size, or both, of said groups of pixels; and comparing one or more default values of relative exposure or size, or both, with one or more captured values of relative exposure or size, or both, based upon analysis of said image of said face; adjusting in a post-image capture process said image parameters including adjusting said values of relative exposure or size, or both, of said face, and removing identification of one or more of said plurality of groups of pixels as corresponding respectively to one or more images of one or more faces, and wherein the removing being performed by increasing a sensitivity level of face identifying within at least one low resolution image or said main image or both.