Patent Document ID: 8379117
Application ID: 12957633
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of detecting and correcting an eye defect within an acquired digital image comprising a multiplicity of pixels indicative of luminance and color, the pixels forming various shapes within the image, the method comprising: acquiring a digital image including said multiplicity of pixels indicative of luminance and color; detecting a candidate eye defect region based on color or shape or both within the digital image; analyzing meta-data information including image acquisition device-specific information including image acquisition device-specific information, including f-stop, aperture, exposure, gain, white balance or color transformation, or combinations thereof, and further including focusing distance information at the time of acquisition, and information describing conditions under which the image was acquired; analyzing anthropometric information including statistics relating to at least one relationship between said focusing distance information at the time of acquisition as recorded by said auto-focus mechanism and a location of a second detected eye, lips, nostrils or a surrounding face, or combinations thereof; utilizing meta-data and anthropometric information to determine whether said candidate eye defect region is suspected as including an eye defect region; and filtering said candidate eye defect region from the digital image.