Apparatus, medium, and method for photographing based on face detection
AssigneeSamsung Electronic Co., Ltd.
InventorsJung-bae Kim, Chan-min Park, Eui-hyeon Hwang
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A photographing method, medium, and apparatus based on face detection in a portable camera. The portable photographing apparatus may include an image input unit that receives an image, a face detection unit that detects a face from the received image, a storage unit that stores the image detected by the face detection unit as a moving image in a first mode, and a quality evaluation unit that evaluates the quality of the image detected by the face detection unit and stores the same as a still image in a second mode upon satisfaction of predetermined conditions evaluated based on the quality evaluation of the still image.
Claims33
A portable photographing apparatus, comprising:
- a face detection unit to detect a face from a received image;
- a storage unit to store the received image upon detection of the face as a moving image in a first mode;
- and
- a quality evaluation unit to evaluate a quality of the received image and to store the received image as a still image in a second mode upon a satisfaction of a selective predetermined condition evaluated based on a quality evaluation of the received image.
A method of photographing a picture in a portable photographing apparatus based on face detection, the method comprising:
- receiving an image;
- detecting a face from the received image;
- and
- storing the received image detected by the face detection unit as a moving image in a first mode, and evaluating the quality of the received image detected by the face detection unit and storing the received image as a still image in a second mode upon satisfaction of a selective predetermined condition evaluated based on a quality evaluation of the received image.
An imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a face detection unit to detect a face from a received image through a multilayer face detection scheme, with a broader face detection being first applied and a narrower face detection secondly being applied, wherein the narrower face detection is only implemented after detection of a face through the broader face detection;
- and
- a storage unit to store the received image, upon a detection of the face, as a moving image or a still image.
An imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a face detection unit to detect a face from a received image through a multilayer face detection scheme, with the different layers of face detection separately detecting for a face through respective particular axis of movement of a face;
- and
- a storage unit to store the received image, upon a detection of the face, as a moving image or a still image.
An imaging apparatus, comprising:
- a face detection unit to detect a face from a received image through a multilayer face detection scheme, with the different layers of face detection separately detecting for a particular potential orientation of a face in the received image and with the different layers of face detection being implemented with a number of face orientation detectors less than a number of particular potential face orientations in the received image;
- and
- a storage unit to store the received image, upon a detection of the face, as a moving image or a still image.
A portable photographing apparatus, comprising:
- a means for face detection of a face from a received image;
- and
- a storage unit to store the received image based upon detection of the face as a moving image or a still image.
A portable photographing apparatus, comprising:
- a face detection unit to detect a face from a received image;
- a storage unit to store the received image based upon detection of the face as a moving image or a still image;
- and
- a means for quality evaluation of the received image and to store the received image as a still image upon a satisfaction of a selective predetermined condition evaluated based on a quality evaluation of the received image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.