Patent ID: 8379103
Filing Date: 2013-02-19
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera comprising: a characterizing portion detecting unit which analyzes an analysis target image including one of a through image data sequentially taken in from an image pickup device to compose one of a shot of an object, a shot image acquired by shooting, and a reduced image acquired by reducing the shot image, on the basis of a feature appearing in an image representing an object of shooting including a person and an animal, and detects one or more characterizing portions of an object captured in the analysis target image; an object information extracting unit which extracts, for respective characterizing portions of the object detected by the characterizing portion detecting unit from the analysis target image corresponding to a shot image acquired by shooting, object information including position data which represents a position of the characterizing portion of the object on a screen corresponding to the analysis target image and corresponding to an expansion of the characterizing portion of the object; a tag data writing unit which writes the object information extracted correspondingly to the object, as a part of tag data corresponding to the shot image, to a storage medium which stores image data representing the shot image; a positioning unit which specifies a position of the characterizing portion in the shot image based on the position data included in the object information written in the tag data; and a display controlling unit which sequentially enlarges and displays each of the characterizing portions in the shot image specified by the positioning unit on a display section when object information related to the one or more characterizing portions is included in the tag data.