Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsKenichi Ono, Takahiro Tomita, Tomoki Okuzono
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a display unit that displays predetermined information, an imaging unit that is installed on a right side or left side of a central portion of an upper frame of an outer frame enclosing the display unit to obtain a pickup image of a user, and a control unit that detects a face area of the user from the pickup image obtained by the imaging unit to cut out the face area containing the detected face area.
Claims8
An information processing apparatus, comprising:
- a display unit that displays predetermined information;
- an imaging unit that is installed on a right side or left side of a central portion of an upper frame of an outer frame enclosing the display unit to obtain a pickup image of a user;
- and
- a control unit that detects a face area of the user from the pickup image obtained by the imaging unit to cut out the face area containing the detected face area.
An information processing method for an information processing apparatus having a display unit that displays predetermined information, an imaging unit that is installed on a right side or left side of a central portion of an upper frame of an outer frame enclosing the display unit, and a control unit, comprising the steps of:
- obtaining a pickup image of a user by the imaging unit;
- and
- detecting a face area of the user from the pickup image obtained by the imaging unit to cut out the face image containing the detected face area by the control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.