Patent ID: 9025044
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging device comprising: an imaging unit that images a subject and that continuously creates image data on the subject; a face detector that detects a face of the subject included in the image data; a background area detector that (1) divides the image into a plurality of predetermined areas, (2) determines, for each of the plurality of predetermined areas, whether or not the face of the subject detected by the face detector is present within the predetermined area, and (3) defines one of the predetermined areas determined not to have the face of the subject present as a selected background area; a trimming unit that (1) creates a face image by cutting out, from an image, a face area that includes the face of the subject detected by the face detector, and (2) enlarges the selected background area to generate a background image; an image composition unit that creates a collage image by combining the face image with the background image; and a display controller that displays the collage image.