Image pickup apparatus equipped with face-recognition function
US8615112B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 28, 2008 |
| Grant date | Dec 24, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 6, 2031 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N2101/00
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
The image pickup apparatus 100 comprises the image pickup unit 1 to pick up an image of the subject which a user desires, a detecting of the face image area which includes the face of the subject person in the picked-up image based on the image information of the picked-up image, a recognizing of the expression of the face in the detected face image area, a ranking of the face image areas in the order of good smile of the recognized expressions and a displaying of the face image areas F arranged in the order of ranking and the entire picked-up image G on the same screen.
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