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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 06, 2011
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2005
Hirotaka Kamiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitoshi Yashio, Tokyo, JP;
Hirotaka Kamiyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Hitoshi Yashio, Tokyo, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The invention provides a facial feature verification apparatus capable of synthesizing an image suitable for verification to identify a person subjected to surveillance whom surveillance staff desires to watch. The facial feature verification apparatus includes a plurality of pickup units, a pickup controlling unitfor controlling the pickup units, a displaying unitfor displaying images picked up by the pickup units, and a verifying unitfor detecting a person from the picked up images, extracting a facial image by determining a face area of the person, extracting a facial image from the images picked up by the pickup units, synthesizing a plurality of facial features by extracting facial features from the extracted facial images, and verifying the synthesized facial features with the facial features enrolled in advance in a facial image database