Patent Document ID: 9942470
Application ID: 15284280
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of in-camera processing to provide an increased number of smiling faces in a recorded digital image of a group of faces, comprising: acquiring one or more digital images; and providing in-camera processing which automatically: identifies one or more faces in a first one of the images; from among the one or more faces, identifies a particular number of non-smiling faces; and based, at least in part, on the particular number, initiates one or more operations when a predetermined minimum number of non-smiling faces are in the first image, said one or more operations including: delaying recording of an image until the number of non-smiling faces in a subsequently acquired image is less than the predetermined number and, when the number of non-smiling faces in a subsequently acquired image is less than the predetermined number, forming a composite image, based on the subsequently acquired image and one or more of the other images, to further reduce the number of non-smiling faces by replacing a face region in the subsequently acquired image with a face region in one of the one or more of the other images; and recording the composite image as digital content in a storage medium.