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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2005
Jung-bae Kim, Suwon-si, KR;
Chan-min Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Eui-hyeon Hwang, Goyang-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A photographing method, medium, and apparatus based on face detection in a portable camera. The portable photographing apparatus may include an image input unit that receives an image, a face detection unit that detects a face from the received image, a storage unit that stores the image detected by the face detection unit as a moving image in a first mode, and a quality evaluation unit that evaluates the quality of the image detected by the face detection unit and stores the same as a still image in a second mode upon satisfaction of predetermined conditions evaluated based on the quality evaluation of the still image.