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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2003
Filed:
May. 14, 2001
Virtual Visual Devices, LLC, Syracuse, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of determining eyeglass frame parameters from a digital image of the person's face and a digital image of an eyeglass frame. The method comprises the steps of: (a) providing a digital image of the person's face; (b) determining a physical scale of the face using a scaling factor; (c) locating center points P , P of the left and right irises in the face image, and determining a pupil midpoint P ; (d) providing a digital image of an eyeglass frame; (e) adjusting, if necessary, the size of the frame to the physical scale of the face; (f) combining the frame and face images such that the frame is superimposed on the face; (g) aligning the frame and face in accordance with the frame center point f and the pupil midpoint P ; and (h) determining the frame parameters.