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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2010
Naoyuki Onoe, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Yamashita, Saitama, JP;
Daisuke Mochizuki, Chiba, JP;
Naoki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Kaino, Kanagawa, JP;
Naoyuki Onoe, Kanagawa, JP;
Junichi Yamashita, Saitama, JP;
Daisuke Mochizuki, Chiba, JP;
Naoki Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Akihiko Kaino, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a face detector for detecting a face region from an image including a face of a user, a part detector for detecting a positional layout of a part of the face included in the face region detected by the face detector, a determiner for determining an attribute of the face on the basis of the positional layout of the part detected by the part detector and calculating a score indicating attribute determination results, a model selector for selecting, on the basis of the score calculated by the determiner, a model that is to be displayed in place of the face of the user in the image, and an image generator for generating an image of a face of the model selected by the model selector and synthesizing the image of the face of the model with the face of the user within the face region.