Patent Document ID: 9462180
Application ID: 14300150
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of in-camera processing to create a photographic record of a captured image of a group of faces by increasing smiling faces in the image, the method comprising: acquiring the captured image with a camera having an image sensor for acquiring digital images; providing one or more digitally-acquired first images of the group of faces in addition to the captured image; from among the group of faces, identifying a number of non-smiling faces in one of the images; based, at least in part, on the number of non-smiling faces, initiating a plurality of operations including, when a predetermined number of non-smiling faces are present in said one of the images: (i) delaying acquisition and recording of the captured image to allow time for reducing non-smiling faces in the captured image relative to said number of non-smiling faces in said one of the images; and (ii) replacing a face region in the captured image by combining a face region in at least one of the one or more digitally-acquired images into the captured image; and storing the captured image with the replaced face region as digital content in a mass storage device.