APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING PREDETERMINED FUNCTIONS ACCORDING TO RECOGNIZED OBJECTS

摘要

An apparatus and method allows one or more objects to be defined, and one or more corresponding functions to be defined for one or more of the defined objects (1340). An object recognition processor (1320) processes digital images, looking for the defined objects (1340). For each defined object (1340) that is found in the digital image, a corresponding function is performed. Digital images are processed to see if any of the objects (e.g.,people's faces) are present in the digital image. If an object is recognized, an e-mail message is automatically generated (1370) with a distribution list (1350) that is defined by the recognized objects.In this e-mail example, the distribution list (1350) will be a s uperset of the specified distribution lists for all recognized objects.