Image-capturing apparatus and method, expression evaluation apparatus, and program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorKaname Ogawa
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Abstract
An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image by using a solid-state image-capturing device may include a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being on the basis of an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium; an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is close to a specific expression in relation to expressions other than the specific expression; and a notification section configured to notify notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value to an image-captured person.
Claims3
An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image by using a solid-state image-capturing device, the image-capturing apparatus comprising:
- a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being on the basis of an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium;
- an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is close to a specific expression in relation to expressions other than the specific expression;
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- a notification section configured to notify notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value to an image-captured person,
- wherein the expression evaluation section uses a smile as the specific expression, and computes, as the expression evaluation value, the degree to which the detected face is close to a smile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.