摘要 |
Eye blink avoidance for use in an electronic device (30) having digital camera functionality (56), such as a mobile communications device, smartphone or superphone is described. The device captures multiple images and determines, using eye blink detection (146), whether a subject in an image has closed eyes. This technology allows a mobile phone (100) equipped with a camera to avoid photographs of subjects with their eyes closed by capturing a plurality of images in succession and choosing the image with open eyes by using a best-effort eye blink detection algorithm to detect closed eyes in the faces of the subjects. Depending on user preferences, and configuration, the user may choose one or more of a plurality of images captured (168) that do not have eyes closed or a best image can be selected by the device
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