Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image-capturing apparatus and method, expression evaluation apparatus, and program
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Application No.: US13109424Application Date: 2011-05-17
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Publication No.: US08416999B2Publication Date: 2013-04-09
- Inventor: Kaname Ogawa
- Applicant: Kaname Ogawa
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Priority: JPP2006-211000 20060802
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/46 ; G06K9/62 ; G06K9/66

Abstract:
An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image by using a solid-state image-capturing device may include a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being on the basis of an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium; an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is close to a specific expression in relation to expressions other than the specific expression; and a notification section configured to notify notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value to an image-captured person.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110216217A1 IMAGE-CAPTURING APPARATUS AND METHOD, EXPRESSION EVALUATION APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2011-09-08
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