Patent Document ID: 20100014721
Application ID: 12506124
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A processor-based system operating according to digitally-embedded programming instructions and communicating with one or more digital data storage media for classifying and archiving images including face regions that are acquired with a digital image acquisition device, the programming instructions comprising: (a) a face detection module for identifying a group of pixels corresponding to a face region within digital image data acquired by the acquisition device; (b) a normalization module for generating a normalized face region from said face region; (c) a face recognition module for automatically extracting a set of values of face classifier parameters from said normalized face region, said set of face classifier parameter values being collectively known as a faceprint associated with said normalized face region; (d) a workflow module for automatically comparing said extracted faceprint to a database of archived faceprints previously determined to correspond to one or more known identities, and for determining based on the comparing whether the new faceprint corresponds to any of the one or more known identities, the workflow module further for associating the new faceprint and normalized face region from which said faceprint is derived with a new or known identity within a database comprising other data corresponding to the archived faceprints and associated parent images for performing further comparisons with further faceprints; and (e) a database module for archiving the data according to the associating by the workflow module within one or more digital data storage media.