MONITORING SYSTEM, MONITORING DEVICE AND MONITORING METHOD

摘要

A subject monitoring system is not required to adjust a photographing range by a camera to cover a subject person and can protect the privacy of other than the subject person. A data center (105) inputs a photographed image picked up when a subject person holding a wireless tag (125) passes through in the vicinity of a photographing device (101) and a face region detecting device (107) detects a face region from the photographed image as a specific region. Further, a face identifying device (108) acquires a facial characteristic amount of the subject person registered at a data base (110) in accordance with personal identification information obtained from the wireless IC tag (125) and identifies the face region consistent with that of the subject person from the detected face regions. A masking device (109) then masks other than the identified face region of the subject person and generates a masked image and an image data managing device (106) holds the masked image in association with the personal identification information for the publicity. When a browsing terminal device (111) demands its inspection, the monitoring system transmits the masked image corresponding to the authenticated personal identification information.