Image pickup apparatus equipped with face-recognition function

摘要

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit to pick up an image of a subject which a user desires. The image pickup apparatus detects a face image area which includes a face of the subject person in the picked-up image based on the image information of the picked-up image, recognizes an expression of the face in the detected face image area, ranks the face image areas in order of good smile from among the recognized expressions, and displays the face image areas arranged in the order of ranking and the entire picked-up image on a same screen.

主权项

1. A display apparatus comprising:
an image acquisition device which sequentially acquires a plurality of images; a face detection device which detects a plurality of face images based on at least one of the sequentially acquired plurality of images; a face image evaluation device which evaluates a specific condition for the plurality of face images detected by the face detection device, wherein the specific condition includes at least one of a facial expression, a facial contrast, a facial brightness, and a facial size; a selection device which selects a predetermined number of face images from among the plurality of face images detected by the face detection device, wherein a number of the selected predetermined number of face images is lower than a number of the plurality of face images detected by the face detection device, and wherein the selection device selects the predetermined number of face images based on the evaluation by the face image evaluation device; and an image display control device which controls a display device to simultaneously display a live-view image corresponding to the sequentially acquired plurality of images and the selected predetermined number of face images.