Image extracting apparatus and image extracting method

• US 20070183638A1
• Filed: 04/06/2007
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Minolta Corporation Limited (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Minolta Corporation Limited (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Kyoko
• Application Number:
  US11/783,127
• Publication Number:
  US 20070183638A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/128
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30196 Human being; Person
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/73 using feature-based methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/77 using statistical methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/16 Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/61 based on recognised objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/632 for displaying or modifying preview images prior to image capturing, e.g. variety of image resolutions or capturing parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/633 for displaying additional information relating to control or operation of the camera

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to obtain an image of a subject in a desired pose. To attain this object, an image extracting apparatus according to the present invention is provided with an image database in which a plurality of images is stored, detecting means (S104) for detecting the orientation of a subject in an image, and extracting means (S106) for extracting an image including a subject in a predetermined orientation (S102) from the image database based on the result of the detection by the detecting means.

Claims

1. An image extracting apparatus comprising:

an acquiring portion which acquires a plurality of signals each representative of an image of one or more subjects;

a determining portion which determines orientations the subjects based on each of the signals; and

an extracting portion which extracts a predetermined signal from among the signals based on the determination.

2-13. -13. (canceled)