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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2016
Applicant:
Jvc Kenwood Corporation, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Mizuki Ohara, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
JVC KENWOOD Corporation, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); G06K 9/00228 (2013.01); G06K 9/00255 (2013.01); G06K 9/00288 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01);
Abstract
An imaging device includes an imaging unit configured to image an object and output a captured image, a face recognition unit configured to recognize a face included in the captured image and detect a direction and a position of the recognized face, and a group detection unit configured to detect a group formed by the faces included in the captured image based on directions and positions of two faces being adjacent to each other among the faces included in the captured image.