Face recognition apparatus
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakaaki Nagai, Takahiro Ohhashi
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Abstract
The face recognition apparatus of the present invention comprises: a face recognizer; an image input section for receiving image data of a human face; a driver for changing at least one of a position and an angle of the image input section; a face direction detector for detecting the direction of the face in the image data; and a movement controller for controlling the driver based on the direction of the face detected by the face direction detector.
Claims24
A face recognition apparatus comprising:
- a face recognizer;
- an image input section for receiving image data of a human face;
- a driver for changing at least one of a position and an angle of the image input section;
- a face direction detector for detecting the direction of the face in the image data;
- and
- a movement controller for controlling the driver based on the direction of the face detected by the face direction detector.
A method for recognizing a face, comprising the steps of:
- detecting the direction of the face based on image data input into an image input section;
- changing at least one of a position and an angle of the image input section based on the detected direction of the face;
- determining a full face image based on the detected direction of the face;
- and
- recognizing the face based on the full face image.
A robot comprising:
- a face recognizer;
- an image input section for receiving image data of a human face;
- a driver for changing at least one of a position and an angle of the image input section;
- a face direction detector for detecting the direction of the face in the image data;
- and
- a movement controller for controlling the driver based on the direction of the face detected by the face direction detector.
A driver recognition apparatus for recognizing a driver in a vehicle comprising:
- a face recognizer;
- an image input section for receiving image data of a driver's face;
- a driver for changing at least one of a position and an angle of the image input section;
- a face direction detector for detecting the direction of the face in the image data;
- and
- a movement controller for controlling the driver based on the direction of the face detected by the face direction detector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.