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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2007
Kaname Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kaname Ogawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image by using a solid-state image-capturing device may include a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being on the basis of an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium; an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is close to a specific expression in relation to expressions other than the specific expression; and a notification section configured to notify notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value to an image-captured person.