Patent Document ID: 9111144
Application ID: 13233331

Base Claim:
1. A method of determining paternity based on eye color, the method comprising: electronically accessing a color digital image of at least one of a male parental candidate, a female parental candidate, and a child candidate; digitally processing the color digital image to determine an eye color of the at least one of the male parental candidate, the female parental candidate, and the child candidate, wherein the eye color of the at least one of the male parental candidate, the female parental candidate, and the child candidate is determined based on the accessed color digital image by comparing a portion of the color digital image to a set of predefined human eye colors; determining a paternity likelihood of the male parental candidate and the female parental candidate with regard to the child candidate based on the determined eye color of the at least one of the male parental candidate, the female parental candidate, and the child candidate; and displaying the paternity likelihood of the male parental candidate and the female parental candidate with regard to the child candidate on an electronic device.

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Claim 10:
10. The method claim 1 , wherein the eye color of the at least one of a male parental candidate, a female parental candidate, and a child candidate is determined by averaging a plurality of colors of the color digital image to determine an average eye color based on the color digital image.