Patent Document ID: 9691136
Application ID: 14733873
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A device configured to enhance an appearance of a face within a digital image, the device comprising: a lens; an image sensor; a processor; and a processor-readable medium having code embedded therein configured to program the processor to: identify a face region within a digital image of a scene including a depiction of a face, wherein the face region is a region of the digital image that includes the depiction of the face, wherein the face region includes less than all of said digital image, the digital image captured using the lens and an image sensor or received following capture by another device that includes a lens and an image sensor; identify within the face region one or more sub-regions to be enhanced with localized luminance smoothing, wherein each of the one or more sub-regions includes less than all of said face region; apply one or more localized luminance smoothing kernels to luminance data of the one or more sub-regions identified within the face region to produce one or more enhanced sub-regions within the face region, wherein the one or more localized smoothing kernels are configured to modify luminance data within each particular sub-region of the one or more sub-regions by, at least in part, replacing the luminance values of each respective pixel of a plurality of pixels in that sub-region with an average computed from the luminance values of pixels surrounding that respective sub-region and not including luminance values of the pixels within that respective sub-region; generate an enhanced image including an enhanced version of the face region comprising pixels corresponding to the one or more enhanced sub-regions within the face region; and provide the enhanced image or a further processed version of the enhanced image for display, transmission, communication or digital storage or other type of output from the device.