Intelligent ball head and method for performing self‐photographing by using the same

An intelligent ball head comprising:

• a photographing apparatus fixing unit, for fixing the photographing apparatus;
• a rotating unit, connected with the photographing apparatus fixing unit, for horizontally and/or vertically rotating the photographing apparatus fixed by the photographing apparatus fixing unit;
• at least one infrared receiving unit, for receiving infrared rays emitted by an infrared emitter carried by a user;
• a control unit, connected with the infrared receiving unit, the rotating unit and the photographing apparatus;
• wherein the control unit comprises a positioning module, for obtaining a position of the infrared emitter of the infrared rays received by the infrared receiving unit;
• a rotation control module, for controlling the rotating unit to rotate of the position obtained by the positioning module, so as to cause the photographing apparatus to face the infrared emitter;
• a user identification module, for receiving user instructions for controlling the photographing apparatus to shoot and carry out face recognition within a predetermined range with the infrared emitter as a center in a view screen, for measuring a first distance from one or more human faces recognized to the intelligent ball head, for comparing the first distance with a second distance from the infrared emitter to the intelligent ball head so as to calculate out a distance difference, and for determining that the face belongs to the user when an absolute value of the distance difference is detected to be smaller than a predetermined value;
• a photographing control module, for controlling the photographing apparatus to focus on the human face for shooting.