Login| Sign Up| Help| Contact|

Patent Searching and Data


Title:
IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2013131970
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To enable appropriate determination of a scene in which best shot photographing should be performed.

A face is detected from a preview image, and further, it is determined whether the face is a smiling face. Then, when the face is not a smiling face, a past history is traced back, and when a predetermined time period has not elapsed since a smiling face became undetected and a face is detected by face detection, best shot photographing is performed, thereby enabling prevention of selection of an inappropriate image by best shot photographing in a state where a face cannot be detected.


Inventors:
OKADA MASAO
Application Number:
JP2011281219A
Publication Date:
July 04, 2013
Filing Date:
December 22, 2011
Export Citation:
Click for automatic bibliography generation   Help
Assignee:
CANON KK
International Classes:
H04N5/232; G03B7/091; G03B15/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takayoshi Kokubun