Techniques for poster-thumbnail and/or animated thumbnail development and/or usage to effectively navigate for potential selection between a plurality of images or programs/video files or video segments. The poster and animated thumbnail images are presented in a GUI on adapted apparatus to provide an efficient system for navigating, browsing and/or selecting images or programs or video segments to be viewed by a user. The poster and animated thumbnails may be automatically produced without human-necessary editing and may also have one or more various associated data (such as text overlay, image overlay, cropping, text or image deletion or replacement, and/or associated audio).

Techniques for navigating multiple video streams

An image processing apparatus for tracking faces in an image stream iteratively receives an acquired image from the image stream including one or more face regions. The acquired image is sub-sampled at a specified resolution to provide a sub-sampled image. An integral image is then calculated for a least a portion of the sub-sampled image. Fixed size face detection is applied to at least a portion of the integral image to provide a set of candidate face regions. Responsive to the set of candidate face regions produced and any previously detected candidate face regions, the resolution is adjusted for sub-sampling a subsequent acquired image.

Real-time face tracking in a digital image acquisition device

A method of processing a digital image using face detection within the image achieves one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that correspond to an image of a face within the digital image. Default values are determined of one or more parameters of at least some portion of the digital image. Values are adjusted of the one or more parameters within the digitally-detected image based upon an analysis of the digital image including the image of the face and the default values.

Digital Image Processing Using Face Detection Information

A technique for processing a digital image uses face detection to achieve one or more desired image processing parameters. A group of pixels is identified that corresponds to a face image within the digital image. A skin tone is detected for the face image by determining one or more default color or tonal values, or combinations thereof, for the group of pixels. Values of one or more parameters are adjusted for the group of pixels that correspond to the face image based on the detected skin tone.

Digital image processing using face detection and skin tone information

A digital image processing technique detects and corrects visual imperfections using a reference image. A main image and one or more reference images having a temporal and/or spatial overlap and/or proximity with the original image are captured. Device information, image data and/or meta data are analyzed of the one or more reference images relating to a defect in the main image. The device corrects the defect based on the information, image data and/or meta-data to create an enhanced version of the main image.

Digital image enhancement with reference images

A method and system for merging metadata with digital images is disclosed, where the digital images are stored as image files having metadata fields associated therewith. The method and system include receiving data uploaded from a remote location, providing a web application to a client device over a network when requested, and transmitting the previously uploaded data to the web application. When an image requires input of metadata on the client device, the uploaded data is displayed on the client device for selection by the user. In response to the user's selection, the selected data is then used to automatically populate the metadata fields associated with the image file.

Client-server system for merging of metadata with images

A method and apparatus for enabling a user to define a panning and zooming path across a still image in a digital imaging device during interactive movie creation. The method and apparatus include allowing the user to define the position of a plurality of key frames on the still image, allowing the user to size the key frames to control the zoom during the movie, and allowing the user to set the key frames on the still image to fix each of the key frame's position and size.

Method and apparatus for defining a panning and zooming path across a still image during movie creation

A method and systems for automatically configuring a hand-held camera to improve quality of an image taken with the camera of a particular subject at a photo opportunity site is disclosed. First, values for a set of camera setting parameters are optimized to enhance image quality of a picture taken at that location are determined. Next, wireless communication with the camera is established, and the set of setting parameter values are pushed to camera via the wireless communication to automatically configure the camera to take a picture of the subject.

Method and system for automatically configuring a hand-held camera using wireless communication to improve image quality

A method for displaying an image to a display device is provided. This method includes sequentially the steps of receiving the image in a first data format, performing a white balance correction in combination with a gamma correction for the image in the first data format, performing a color correction in combination with a color space conversion to a second data format for the image, and displaying the image in the second data format to the display device. This method reduces the number of multiplications required in the conversion of an image from the first data format to the second data format. This results in significant savings in CPU time, and more images may be displayed within a certain amount of time.

Method and system of optimizing a digital imaging processing chain

A method and apparatus for de-interlacing a buffer of image data, wherein scan lines from an image sensor have been transferred to the buffer and stored in a group of even scan lines and a group of odd scan lines. The method for de-interlacing the buffer includes providing a first table to indicate current storage locations of each scan line in the buffer and providing a second table to indicate which scan line is currently stored in each storage location. The first table and a temporary line buffer are then used iteratively swap pairs of scan lines that are stored out of numerical order in the buffer, such that after a swap, one of the scan line in the pair is stored in numerical order in the buffer. After each swap, the first table is updated using the second table, and then second table is updated, such that the first and second tables reflect a change of storage locations for the scan lines, whereby the buffer is de-interlaced in place without using a duplicate buffer.

John Bernstein

Papers

Client-server system for merging of metadata with images

Method and apparatus for defining a panning and zooming path across a still image during movie creation

Method and system for automatically configuring a hand-held camera using wireless communication to improve image quality

Method and system of optimizing a digital imaging processing chain

Efficiently de-interlacing a buffer of image data