Mobile communication apparatus for controlling imaging based on facial recognition

An image production method executed by a mobile communication apparatus which includes a first camera section configured to obtain an image of a subject and a second camera section configured to obtain an image of a photographer, said imaging method comprising:

• controlling said second camera section to start obtaining the image of the photographer in response to a start instruction and to generate still image data in order;
• comparing current still image data of a face of the photographer and previous still image data of the face of the photographer through facial recognition which are the still image data in response to an image-obtaining start instruction, calculating a change value of a change portion between the current still image data and the previous still image data, and comparing the change value with a setting value to determine whether the change value exceeds the setting value;
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• controlling said first camera section to obtain the image of the subject and to generate the image data when the change value is determined to exceed the setting value, the change value being determined to exceed the setting value when there is a positive feature indication on the face of the photographer indicated by the compared still image data through facial recognition.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium in which a computer-executable program is stored to attain an image production method executed by a mobile communication apparatus which comprises a first camera section configured to obtain an image of a subject and a second camera section configured to obtain an image of a photographer, wherein said imaging method comprises:

• controlling said second camera section to start obtaining the image of the photographer in response to a start instruction and to generate still image data in order;
• comparing current still image data of a face of the photographer and previous still image data of the face of the photographer through facial recognition which are the still image data in response to an image-obtaining start instruction, calculating a change value of a change portion between the current still image data and the previous still image data, and comparing the change value with a setting value to determine whether the change value exceeds the setting value;
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• controlling said first camera section to obtain the image of the subject and to generate the image data when the change value is determined to exceed the setting value, the change value being determined to exceed the setting value when there is a positive feature indication on the face of the photographer indicated by the compared still image data through facial recognition.