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US 2007/0183638 A1Published application
Image extracting apparatus and image extracting method
AssigneeMinolta Co., Ltd.
InventorKyoko Nakamura
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to obtain an image of a subject in a desired pose. To attain this object, an image extracting apparatus according to the present invention is provided with an image database in which a plurality of images is stored, detecting means (S104) for detecting the orientation of a subject in an image, and extracting means (S106) for extracting an image including a subject in a predetermined orientation (S102) from the image database based on the result of the detection by the detecting means.
Claims2
An image extracting apparatus comprising:
- an acquiring portion which acquires a plurality of signals each representative of an image of one or more subjects;
- a determining portion which determines orientations the subjects based on each of the signals;
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- an extracting portion which extracts a predetermined signal from among the signals based on the determination.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.