Patent Document ID: 20110299742
Application ID: 12962086
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining the position of the eyes of a face in a digital image, the method comprising: determining a pair of approximate positions of the eyes in the digital image; determining test pairs of positions of the eyes on the basis of the pair of approximate positions, each position of an eye in a test pair being in the adjacent area of the approximate position of the corresponding eye; geometric transformation, for each test pair, of the digital image into a normalized image in such a way as to make the positions of the eyes of each test pair coincide with a pair of predetermined reference positions; comparison of at least a part of each normalized image covering at least a part of the face with a corresponding part of a predetermined image, each comparison providing a score representing the level of resemblance between the part of the normalized image and that of the predetermined image; and declaration of the positions of the eyes of the test pair associated with the best score as actual positions of the eyes of the face.