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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2009
Applicant:
Shingo Yoshizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shingo Yoshizumi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); G06K 9/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A composition determination device includes: a subject detection unit configured to detect a subject in an image based on acquired image data; a still detection unit configured to detect a still state, with an image based on the image data, or a subject detected by the subject detection unit, as the object thereof; and a composition determination unit configured to determine a composition, with only real subjects or only unreal subjects, of subjects detected by the subject detection unit, as the object thereof, based on detection results of the still detection unit.