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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2010
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2006
Applicant:
Kunlong Gu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kunlong Gu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and an apparatus automatically detect and remove eyeglasses from an image. The method according to one embodiment accesses digital image data representing an image including a face; detects eyeglasses in the image to produce a report about presence or absence of eyeglasses in the image; normalizes illumination of the image to obtain a normalized image; and removes eyeglasses from the normalized image to obtain a face image without eyeglasses.