Patent ID: 7995804

Claim:
A method of detecting and correcting a red-eye defect within a digital image, comprising: (a) acquiring an image including one or more non red eye defect regions having a red color; Using a processor including: (b) performing in a first stage an initial segmentation of candidate redeye regions to determine a first set of one or more confirmed redeye regions designated for correction; (c) determining a location and orientation of any faces within the image; (d) analyzing the first set of confirmed redeye regions based on the determined location and orientation of said any faces, or based on a determination that there are no faces present within the image, to determine a probability that each confirmed redeye region appears at a position of an eye; (e) removing from the first set any confirmed redeye regions having at least a certain threshold probability of being a false positive, and thereby generating a second set; (f) correcting the second set of confirmed red eye regions and generating a red eye corrected image which has the second set of confirmed red eye regions corrected therein; and (g) electronically storing, transmitting, further processing or editing, or displaying the red eye corrected image, or combinations thereof.