Patent ID: 7852384

Claim:
A portable digital apparatus having no photographic film, comprising: (a) a housing; (b) a source of light coupled to the housing for providing illumination during image capturing; (c) a digital image capturing apparatus within the housing; (d) at least one of an image display and an image output coupled to the housing; and (e) a red-eye filter within the housing for modifying pixels indicative of a red-eye phenomenon within said at least one of said image display and said image output, wherein the red eye filter is configured for modifying an area within the image indicative of red-eye phenomenon based on analyzing metadata, including comparing a size of said area with a calculated range of expected sizes of said area based on one or more stored human facial anthropometrical values and information of distance of said area from the portable digital apparatus, depth of field, CCD size, focal length of a lens of the portable digital apparatus, or aperture, or combinations thereof, and further based on a search for a second eye at an estimated distance, or for a surrounding face, lips or nostrils based on the size of the area, or combinations thereof.