Patent Document ID: 20050053279
Application ID: 10972723
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A system comprising: means for receiving an image; means for searching a set of areas of the image for candidate pixels of one or more colors, wherein the one or more colors comprise colors corresponding to red-eye; means for combining the candidate pixels into a set of one or more pixel groups, wherein the means for combining comprises means for combining candidate pixels into the same group if the candidate pixels are adjacent one another; means for, for each pixel group in the set of one or more pixel groups, classifying the pixel group as being part of an eye or not part of an eye; means for checking whether flash was used in capturing the image, wherein the means for checking whether flash was used in capturing the image comprises means for checking whether a flash used flag is set in a header corresponding to the image; and the means for searching performing the searching, the means for combining performing the combining, and the means for classifying performing the classifying only if flash was used in capturing the image.