Automated removal of red eye effect from a digital image
US6009209A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 27, 1997 |
| Grant date | Dec 28, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 27, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N1/624
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus and method is disclosed for automatically editing a digital color image to remove discoloration of the image, known as a "red eye" effect, by parsing the discoloration into regions and re-coloring the area of the discoloration based on the attributes of the discoloration. The editing process according to the invention automatically creates a bitmap that is a correction image, which is composited with the source image or a copy of it and displayed as the source image with the red eye effect corrected.
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