IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging device that can take a picture in which the subject person looks younger than he/she actually is.SOLUTION: The imaging device is configured to: extract a predetermined frequency component from image data of a newly taken picture; divide an extracted frequency component into a sub area; referring a frequency component of each sub area of the newly taken picture to a frequency component of each corresponding sub area of a data base; calculate a maximum vicinity area where the total number of matching components contained in respective frequency components is maximal; and replace a first extraction component of a part extracted from a frequency component outside the maximum vicinity area of each sub area of the newly taken picture with a second extraction component of a part outside the maximum vicinity area of each corresponding sub area of the data base at a position of the frequency component of the newly taken picture corresponding to a position of the second extraction component.