Patent Document ID: 6088470
Application ID: 09013758
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for creating an image of at least a portion of a head of a person who is wearing eyeglasses or contact lens and who is positioned at a subject location which image is free of specularities comprising: a. positioning a first illuminator and at least one additional illuminator at a selected distance from the subject location and spaced apart from one another; b. capturing a first image of at least a portion of a head of a person who is wearing eyeglasses or contact lens while the person's head is illuminated by the first illuminator and not illuminated by the at least one additional illuminator wherein the first image is comprised of a set of pixels each pixel corresponding to a specific location relative to the person's head and having a gray scale value; c. capturing at least one additional image of at least a portion of a head of a person who is wearing eyeglasses or contact lens while the person's head is illuminated by the at least one additional illuminator and not illuminated by the first illuminator; wherein the second image is comprised of a set of pixels each pixel corresponding to a specific location relative to the person's head and having a gray scale value; d. creating sets of pixels such that each set contains a pixel from the first image and a pixel from each additional image and all pixels in each set correspond to a same location relative to the subject; and e. constructing an image of the subject that is free of specularities by selecting one pixel from each set of pixels by choosing that pixel which has a minimum gray scale value.