IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS EQUIPPED WITH FACE-RECOGNITION FUNCTION
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1. An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
- an image pickup unit to pick up an image of a subject;
a display unit to display a picked-up image which is picked up by the image pickup unit;
a face detection device to detect a face area which includes a face of the subject within the picked-up image based on image information of the picked-up image; and
an image display control device to make the display unit display a face image of the face area detected by the face detection device along with the picked-up image, the face image being enlarged so as to be larger than the face of the subject in the picked-up image which is displayed in the display unit.
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Abstract
The image pickup apparatus 100 comprises the image pickup unit 1 to pick up an image of the subject which a user desires, a detecting of the face image area which includes the face of the subject person in the picked-up image based on the image information of the picked-up image, a recognizing of the expression of the face in the detected face image area, a ranking of the face image areas in the order of good smile of the recognized expressions and a displaying of the face image areas F arranged in the order of ranking and the entire picked-up image G on the same screen.
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1. An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
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an image pickup unit to pick up an image of a subject; a display unit to display a picked-up image which is picked up by the image pickup unit; a face detection device to detect a face area which includes a face of the subject within the picked-up image based on image information of the picked-up image; and an image display control device to make the display unit display a face image of the face area detected by the face detection device along with the picked-up image, the face image being enlarged so as to be larger than the face of the subject in the picked-up image which is displayed in the display unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An image display apparatus, comprising:
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a display unit to display an entire image; a face detection device to detect a face area which includes a face in the entire image based on image information of the entire image; and an image display control device to make the display unit display the face area which is detected by the face detection device along with the entire image, a face image being enlarged so as to be larger than the face in the entire image which is displayed in the display unit.
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23. An image display method, comprising:
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detecting a face area which includes a face in the entire image based on image information of the entire image; and displaying the entire image and the detected face area by enlarging a face image larger than the face in the entire image which is displayed.
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24. A storage medium for storing a program realizing function of:
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detecting a face area which includes a face in the entire image based on image information of the entire image; and displaying the entire image and the detected face area by enlarging a face image larger than the face in the entire image which is displayed.
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