Photographing apparatus, method and medium using image recognition
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorWataru Ito
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Abstract
Processing for judging whether a face is included in a frame is performed, in a predetermined interval, on each of frames included in a moving image of a subject, displayed on a monitor, until the judgment becomes positive. If it is judged that a face is included in a frame, the facial position is detected in the frame, and stored. Then, judgment is made as to whether a face is included in the next frame after predetermined time. If the judgment is positive, the facial position is detected. The previously stored facial position is replaced by the newly detected facial position, and the newly detected facial position is stored. These processes are repeated until photographing operation is performed by operating a release unit.
Claims9
A camera device, comprising:
- a display for displaying a moving image;
- a memory for storing facial position data;
- a user interface for receiving a user instruction of a photographing operation to generate image data including a plurality of frames;
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- a processor configured to perform a face detection processing, a storing processing, the photographing operation, a predetermined correction processing, and an image storing processing,
- wherein the face detection processing detects whether or not a human face is included in a frame of the moving image,
- wherein the storing processing stores facial position data in a case in which a human face is detected to be in the frame based on a result of the face detection processing,
- wherein the predetermined correction processing improves an image quality of the detected human face of the image data,
- wherein the image storing processing stores the image data generated by the photographing operation,
- wherein the processor is configured to perform the face detection processing on each of successive frames of the moving image until the user interface receives the user instruction from a user, and to perform the storing processing in a case in which the human face is detected to be in one of the successive frames,
- wherein the processor is configured to perform the photographing operation and the predetermined correction processing, based on receiving the user instruction at the user interface, and
- wherein, in a case in which eyes of the detected human face are closed in a first frame corresponding to a timing of the user instruction, the processor is configured to perform the predetermined correction processing with respect to a second frame, which is a previous or subsequent frame of the first frame, including the detected human face with open eyes.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.