Patent ID: 8446486
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A face detecting apparatus comprising: a detection processing setting device for setting whether or not processing for detecting a face from within the image of a subject will be executed; a detection processing determination device for determining whether said detection processing setting device has set execution of face detection processing; a face detecting device, responsive to a determination by said detection processing determination device that face detection processing will be executed, for executing processing for detecting a face from within the image of a subject represented by applied subject-image data; a setting notification device, responsive to a determination by said detection processing determination device that face detection processing will be executed, for notifying of the fact that execution of face detection processing has been set by said detection processing setting device; and an image sensing device for sensing the image of a subject; wherein said face detecting device, responsive to a determination by said detection processing determination device that face detection processing will be executed, executes processing for detecting a face from within the image of a subject represented by subject-image data acquired by said image sensing device; said apparatus further comprising: an image sensing mode setting device for setting a first image sensing mode, which assumes that a person is a main subject, or a second image sensing mode, which assumes that something other than a person is a main subject; a control device, responsive to setting of the first image sensing mode by said image sensing mode setting device, for applying control for the first image sensing mode to subject-image data acquired by said image sensing device, and responsive to setting of the second image sensing mode by said image sensing mode setting device, for applying control for the second image sensing mode to subject-image data that has been output from said image sensing device; and verification notification device for giving notification of at the fact that face detection processing will not be executed, in response to setting of the first image sensing mode by said image sensing mode setting device and, moreover, to a determination by said detection processing determination device that face detection processing will not be executed, and the fact that face detection processing will be executed, in response to setting of the second image sensing mode by said image sensing mode setting device and, moreover, to a determination by said detection processing determination device that face detection processing will be executed.