Patent Document ID: 20030223622
Application ID: 10160421
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, said method comprising the steps of: (a) acquiring a digital image containing one or more faces; (b) detecting a location of facial feature points in the one or more faces, said facial feature points including points identifying salient features including one or more of skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and hair; (c) using the location of the facial feature points to segment the face into different regions, said different regions including one or more of skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, neck and hair regions; (d) determining one or more facially relevant characteristics of the different regions; (e) based on the facially relevant characteristics of the different regions, selecting (1) two or more enhancement filters each customized especially for a particular region and (2) the default parameters for the enhancement filters; and (f) executing the enhancement filters on the particular regions, thereby producing an enhanced digital image from the digital image.