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Patent No.:

US 8570431 B1

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Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013

Filed:

Sep. 15, 2009
Applicant:

Shinichi Kawashima, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Shinichi Kawashima, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A mobile electronic device including: a camera unit configured to capture a subject image and generate an image signal; a display unit configured to receive the image signal and display a captured image based on the image signal; an acquisition unit configured to acquire detection area information as information about a focusable area that is an area excluding, from the captured image, areas regarded as unfocusable for the camera unit to focus on; a face detection unit configured to detect face-including regions, each of which including face image of the subject and existing in the focusable area from the image signal, based on the detection area information; and a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display face regions on the captured image based on the face-including regions detected by the face detection unit.


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Kawashima, Shinichi. (2013). Mobile electronic device having camera (U.S. Patent No. 8570431). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8570431

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