ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING RESPONSE INFORMATION IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE

摘要

An object of the present invention is to provide an electronic apparatus which can imitate a virtual character and in which others than a user can have communication with the virtual character so that the user can enjoy using the electronic apparatus together with the others. Input image information input through an image pickup portion (5) is compared with user's face image data or face feature data stored in a registered dictionary in a non-volatile memory (4), so as to generate response information. The registered dictionary includes partial region image data or feature data of each face part. The response information is generated based on similarity between image information of each face part extracted from the input image information and the registered dictionary. The response information is output to a display portion (6) as information imitating a behavior of the virtual character. Input of image information, comparison with the registered dictionary, generation of response information and output of the response information are controlled by a control portion (1).