Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image selection device and method for selecting image
- Patent Title (中): 图像选择装置及选择图像的方法
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Application No.: US12749667Application Date: 2010-03-30
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Publication No.: US08416312B2Publication Date: 2013-04-09
- Inventor: Kazuhisa Matsunaga
- Applicant: Kazuhisa Matsunaga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Holtz, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, P.C.
- Priority: JPP2009-086197 20090331
- Main IPC: H04N5/228
- IPC: H04N5/228 ; H04N5/76

Abstract:
An image selection device including: a reception unit that receives a plurality of captured images obtained by rapid shooting one or more people as subjects; a face detection unit that detects human faces included in the captured images received by the reception unit; an eye detection unit that detects eyes in the human faces detected by the face detection unit; a blink detection unit that detects blink degrees of each of the eyes detected by the eye detection unit; an estimation unit that estimates statuses of the human faces based on the blink degrees detected by the blink detection unit; and a selecting unit that selects at least one of the captured images to be recorded on a recording medium from among the captured images received by the reception unit, based on the statuses of the human faces estimated by the estimation unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100245614A1 IMAGE SELECTION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SELECTING IMAGE Public/Granted day:2010-09-30
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