摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To photograph a best-shot image by automatically specifying a person on the basis of the attribute information of the person whose face is registered, and automatically setting an image quality parameter corresponding to the person. <P>SOLUTION: In photographing, the person's face is detected in an image in a frame to extract the feature data of the face. Subsequently, the extracted feature data are compared to feature data stored in a feature data field 44 of each of face recognition records constituting a face recognition table 40, and the person who is recorded in a face recognition record having the highest similarity is specified as the person of the detected face. An image quality parameter (in an example in Fig. 4, data stored in sharpness 46-filter 49 fields) recorded in the face recognition record is set as a photographing parameter and photographing is executed, thereby photographing is executed with image quality corresponding to the specified person. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |