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Image display device, control method and computer program

US9104408B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 21, 2009
Grant dateAug 11, 2015
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Expiry dateApr 21, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02D10/00
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Provided is an image display device provided with an image display unit for displaying a still image or a moving image, an image capturing unit for capturing the image in a direction in which the image display unit displays the image on the image display unit, and a face detection unit for performing, at predetermined intervals, face detection processing for detecting a face included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, wherein the predetermined intervals are variable according to whether or not the face of a user is included in the image captured by the image capturing unit, and when the position of the detected face does not change for a predetermined period of time in the face detection processing, the face detection unit does not detect the face as the face of the user.

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