Patent ID: 9712742
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A photographing apparatus comprising: a photographing device for obtaining image data of a subject; a release device for performing a photographing operation; a memory for storing facial position data; a storage for storing the image data; a photographing control device for obtaining a moving image of the subject by continuously obtaining image data with the photographing device until the release device is actuated; a face judgment device for performing processing for judging whether a human face is included in each frame of the moving image; a face detection device for detecting a facial position in each frame of the moving image that has been judged to include a face by the face judgment device; and a control device for controlling the photographing device, the face judgment device, the face detection device, the memory, and the storage so that the facial position detected by the face detection device is stored in the memory, wherein the determining of whether a human face is included in the first frame of the successive frames comprise: wherein the determining of whether a human face is included in the next frame of the successive frames comprises: