Patent ID: 8218815
Filing Date: 2012-07-10
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pick-up apparatus having a function of recognizing an object, comprising: an image pick-up unit for shooting an object to obtain image data of the object; a face recognizing mode setting unit having plural face recognizing modes, in which face recognizing processes of different contents are performed respectively to recognize a face of the object, and for setting one of the plural face recognizing modes; and a face recognizing unit for, when a face recognizing mode is set by the face recognizing mode setting unit, performing a face recognizing process corresponding to the set face recognizing mode on the image data of the object obtained by the image pick-up unit, thereby recognizing a face in the image data of the object; wherein the face recognizing process includes a two-dimensional face recognizing process for recognizing a two-dimensional face and a three-dimensional face recognizing process for recognizing a three-dimensional face.