Enhancing images using known characteristics of image subjects
US8525847B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 1, 2009 |
| Grant date | Sep 3, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 6, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30201
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method performed by one or more computers programmed to enhance images, the method including receiving an image and a face region associated with the image, sampling pixels from the face region, generating, based on the sampled pixels, a face-region evaluation, identifying a modification to the image based on the face-region evaluation, and modifying the image in accordance with the identified modification.
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