Patent Document ID: 8929614
Application ID: 13387065
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for identifying a pair of genuine red eye artifacts in a captured image, comprising: determining the presence of a face in the captured image; substantially encompassing the face within a rectangular shape; determining the presence of three or more candidate red eye artifacts within the rectangular shape; identifying, as genuine red eye artifacts, two candidate red eye artifacts of the three or more candidate red eye artifacts by: measuring a color distance between each of the three or more candidate red eye artifacts within the rectangular shape; measuring, for each of the three or more candidate red eye artifacts, a vertical distance therefrom to a bottom edge of the rectangular shape and determining whether a group of candidate red eye artifacts of the three or more candidate red eye artifacts that are each within a predetermined vertical distance of the bottom edge of the rectangular shape exists; after and in response to determining that the group exists, measuring a horizontal distance between each pair of candidate red eye artifacts of the group and determining whether a pair of candidate red eye artifacts of the group separated by a predetermined horizontal distance exists; and in response to determining that the pair of candidate red eye artifacts of the group separated by the predetermined horizontal distance exists, setting the pair of candidate red eye artifacts as the genuine red eye artifacts.