EP0899686A3

A computer program product for redeye detection

Abstract

A computer program product for detecting eye color defects of a subject in an image due to flash illumination comprises : a computer readable storage medium having a computer program stored thereon for performing the steps of detecting skin colored regions in a digital image; searching the skin colored regions for groups of pixels with color characteristic of redeye defect; and correcting color of the pixels based on a location of redeye defect found in step (b).

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Document	Relation	Office	Category	Cited during	Relevant claims
EP0635972A2	Cites	European Patent Office (EPO)	Y	Search report	1,5,9
SABER E ET AL: "Face detection and facial feature extraction using color, shape and symmetry-based cost functions", PROCEEDINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, 25 August 1996 (1996-08-25), XP002097369	Non-patent	–	–	Search report	–

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Document	Office	Kind	Date
919560	United States of America	–	1997-08-29
91956097	United States of America	A	1997-08-29
919560	–	–	–
US19970919560	–	–	–

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EP0899686A2	European Patent Office (EPO)	A2	1999-03-03
JPH11136498A	Japan	A	1999-05-21
EP0961225A2	European Patent Office (EPO)	A2	1999-12-01
JP2000125320A	Japan	A	2000-04-28
EP0899686A3This record	European Patent Office (EPO)	A3	2000-06-14
EP0961225A3	European Patent Office (EPO)	A3	2000-06-14
US6252976B1	United States of America	B1	2001-06-26
US6292574B1	United States of America	B1	2001-09-18
JP4428737B2	Japan	B2	2010-03-10

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2007-11-21	First examination report despatched17Q	17Q
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2000-06-14	Request for extension of the european patentAL;LT;LV;MK;RO;SIAX	AX
2000-04-28	Search report despatchedORIGINAL CODE: 0009013PUAL	PUAL
1999-03-03	Designated contracting statesAK	AK
1999-03-03	Request for extension of the european patentAL;LT;LV;MK;RO;SIAX	AX
1999-01-15	Public reference made under article 153(3) epc to a published international application that has entered the european phaseORIGINAL CODE: 0009012PUAI	PUAI