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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2011

Filed:

Sep. 26, 2006
Applicants:

Masahiro Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshiya Ohara, Kanagawa, JP;

Makoto Kagaya, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Masahiro Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;

Yoshiya Ohara, Kanagawa, JP;

Makoto Kagaya, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/40 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The method and the apparatus for correcting images extract one or more features including information about face region for each of photographed images, classify the photographed images into groups of particular photographed images having at least one common feature in accordance with at least one of the extracted one or more features, calculate, for the particular photographed images that have been classified in one group, a common correction amount for adjusting the face region to have an appropriate color density in accordance with the extracted one or more features and a type of the one group and correct the particular photographed images belonging to the one group by the calculated common correction amount.


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