Patent ID: 7787025
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup device comprising: an image pickup unit configured to convert a subject image to image data and to output the image data; and a face image recognition unit configured to recognize a face image from the image data of the subject image; a face portion judgment unit configured to judge respective portions in the face image recognized by the face image recognition unit; a face image cutting-out unit configured to cut out image data of the face image from the image data of the subject image based on respective portions of the face image judged by the face portion judgment unit; and a recording unit configured to generate and to record a subject image file corresponding to the image data of the subject image and a face image file corresponding to the image data of the face image cut out by the face image cutting-out unit when the face image is recognized by the face image recognition unit.