Patent Document ID: 7804983
Application ID: 11460225
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of disqualifying an unsatisfactory scene as an image acquisition control for a camera, comprising: acquiring a present image of a scene including a face region; detecting the face region; identifying one or more groups of pixels corresponding to a face feature region within the face region, including a mouth or one or both eyes or combinations thereof; determining whether the face feature region has an unsatisfactory configuration; and if so, then disqualifying the scene as a candidate for full resolution capture while the face feature region has the unsatisfactory configuration, and wherein the present image comprises a subsampled version of a same scene as a full resolution image, wherein the present image comprises a reduced number of pixels compared with said full resolution image, such that said present image comprises a relatively low resolution preview image, and the disqualifying comprises delaying capture of a full resolution image of the scene for one or both of a predetermined or a calculated period for the unsatisfactory configuration to change.