Patent 7970180 was granted and assigned to Fujifilm on June, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
During red eye processing, whether a facial image detected from within an entire image is that of a specific person registered in a database is judged. In the case that it is judged that the facial image is of the specific person registered in the database, red eye detection is performed within the facial image, employing red eye detecting parameters, which are also registered in the database.