Patent ID: 8682029

Claim:
A method comprising: forming a face map of a person in an image, wherein the face map is a face region in the image corresponding to a face of the person; forming a torso map of the person in the image based on the face map, wherein the torso map is a torso region in the image corresponding to a torso of the person; and forming a person map based on the face map and the torso map, wherein the person map is a person region in the image corresponding to the person, wherein the person map forms a segmented image of the person in the image, and wherein forming the person map includes: combining the torso map and the face map to form an initial person map; determining whether an additional region in the image includes a color matching a color in the torso map or in the face map; and combining the additional region with the initial person map in response to finding a color match.