Camera
AssigneeOlympus Imaging Corp.
InventorsAtsushi Maruyama, Osamu Nonaka
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Abstract
There is disclosed a camera which detects a face portion of a subject from a shot image to determine whether a shot image is a good shot candidate image from the features of the face portion and a face portion-related image portion. As examples, the features include, but not be limited to, (1) the shape and variation in contour ranging from the vicinity of the face portion, (2) the position of a hand or leg to be determined by similarity to the skin tone of the face portion, and (3) determination made from the detection result of the face portion as to whether the subject is a half-length or full-length figure.
Claims26
A camera comprising:
- a face-portion detection part for detecting a face portion included in an image signal from the image signal output from an image pickup device;
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- a determination part for determining a shot image as a good shot candidate image from the position of the face portion in a frame of the image and when a contour running toward the outside of the screen from the vicinity of the face portion is formed into a predetermined shape.
A camera comprising:
- a face portion detection part for detecting a face portion included in an image signal from the image signal output an image pickup device for monitoring an image in a shooting screen;
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- a determination part for determining a shot image as a good shot candidate image when a variation in shape of a contour, running from the vicinity of the face portion as a center, with respect to time is detected as a predetermined varying pattern.
A camera comprising:
- a face portion detection part for detecting a face portion included in a shot image;
- a skin tone detection part for detecting a skin tone of the face portion detected by the face portion detection part;
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- a determination part for determining a hand position in the shot image according to the detection result of the skin tone detection part.
A camera comprising:
- a face portion detection part for detecting position and size of a face portion included in a shot image;
- a skin tone detection part for detecting a skin tone of the face portion detected by the face portion detection part;
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- a determination part for determining a leg position in the shot image according to the detection result of the skin tone detection part.
A camera comprising:
- a face portion detection part for detecting position and size of a face portion of a subject included in a shot image;
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- a determination part for determining whether the subject is a full-length or half-length figure according to the output result of the face portion detection part.
A camera comprising:
- a face portion detection part for detecting a face portion of a subject included in a shot image;
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- a determination part for determining, in the shot image, a position of at least part of the subject whose face portion is detected by the face portion detection part.
A camera having a sequential shooting function for sequentially shooting a plurality of images comprising:
- an image pickup device for capturing an image of a subject;
- a face portion detection part for detecting a face portion of the subject included in the image captured by the image pickup device;
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- a determination part for determining the captured image as a good shot candidate image in the sequentially shot images from the position of the face portion in a frame of the image and when a contour running toward the outside of the frame from the vicinity of the face portion is formed into a predetermined shape.
A camera having a sequential shooting function for sequentially shooting a plurality of images comprising:
- an image pickup device for capturing an image of a subject;
- a face portion detection part for detecting a face portion of the subject included in the image captured by the image pickup device;
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- a determination part for determining the captured image as the best image in the sequentially shot images when a variation in shape of a contour, running from the vicinity of the face portion as a center, with respect to time is detected as a predetermined varying pattern.
A camera having a sequential shooting function for sequentially shooting a plurality of images comprising:
- an image pickup device for capturing an image of a subject;
- a face portion detection part for detecting a face portion of the subject included in the image captured by the image pickup device;
- a skin tone detection part for detecting a skin tone of the face portion detected by the face portion detection part;
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- a determination part for determining a hand position in the captured image according to the detection result of the skin tone detection part.
A camera having a sequential shooting function for sequentially shooting a plurality of images comprising:
- an image pickup device for capturing an image of a subject;
- a face portion detection part for detecting position and size of a face portion of the subject included in the image captured by the image pickup device;
- and
- a skin tone detection part for detecting a skin tone of the face portion detected by the face portion detection part;
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- a determination part for determining a leg position in the captured image according to the detection result of the skin tone detection part.
A camera having a sequential shooting function for sequentially shooting a plurality of images comprising:
- an image pickup device for capturing an image of a subject;
- a face portion detection part for detecting position and size of a face portion of the subject included in the image captured by the image pickup device;
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- a determination part for determining whether the subject is a full-length or half-length figure according to the output result of the face portion detection part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.