Automated removal of red eye effect from a digital image

Details Automated removal of red eye effect from a digital image Automated removal of red eye effect from a digital image

1997-06-27

1999-12-28

Lee, Thomas D

Image analysis

Image enhancement or restoration

Artifact removal or suppression

358520, H04N 146

Patent

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060092092

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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