Abstract: Eye blink avoidance for use in an electronic device having digital camera functionality, such as a mobile communications device, smartphone or superphone, is described. The device captures multiple images and determines, using eye blink detection, whether a subject in an image has closed eyes. This technology that allows a mobile phone 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 that do not have eyes closed or a best image can be selected by the device.