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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2009
Yun Sun, Tokyo, JP;
Tamaki Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohiko Gotoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Masatomo Kurata, Tokyo, JP;
Yun Sun, Tokyo, JP;
Tamaki Kojima, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohiko Gotoh, Kanagawa, JP;
Makoto Murata, Tokyo, JP;
Masatomo Kurata, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a face detector detecting face images from still-image frames successively extracted from a moving-image stream in accordance with image information items regarding the still-image frames, a face-feature-value calculation unit calculating face feature values of the face images in accordance with image information items regarding the face images, an identity determination unit determining whether a first face image in a current frame and a second face image in a previous frame represent an identical person in accordance with at least face feature values of the first and second face images, and a merging processor which stores one of the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image represent an identical person, and which stores the first and second face images when the first face image and the second face image do not represent an identical person.