Patent ID: 8311291
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for detecting a face image included in an image, the apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store therein information related to a plurality of different extraction patterns for extracting a predetermined number of pixels for detecting each of face part images, the extraction patterns differ in at least one of shape and size; a control unit configured to receive the image including the face image from an external device and to store the received image in the storage unit; a face-part-image detecting unit configured to extract the pixels from the received image by using a plurality of the extraction patterns stored in the storage unit for each of the face part images, and to detect each of the face part images included in the received image based on feature amounts calculated from the extracted pixels of each of the extraction patterns; and a face-image detecting unit configured to detect the face image from the received image based on the face part images detected by the face-part-image detecting unit.