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Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2009

Filed:

Mar. 25, 2005
Applicant:

Kensuke Terakawa, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Inventor:

Kensuke Terakawa, Kanagawa-ken, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Red-eye area detection accuracy is improved according to a pattern of appearance of red-eye areas generated frequently in an actual photography environment. A red-eye candidate area finding unit finds red-eye candidate areas in a digital photograph image, by using reference data. A display unit displays the image with the red-eye candidate areas having been marked and preliminary corrected. A user can specify an unfound red-eye area and an erroneously specified area by using a specification unitAn update unitupdates the reference data by learning a characteristic of the unfound red-eye area and the erroneously specified area so that a probability becomes higher regarding detection of an area having a characteristic similar to the unfound red-eye area as a red-eye candidate area while becomes lower regarding detection of an area having a characteristic similar to the erroneously specified area as a red-eye area.


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