Patent ID: 9065998
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A photographing apparatus comprising: an imaging unit to photograph a subject to acquire image data; an object detection unit to detect a predetermined object from the image data; a detection condition setting unit to allow a user to arbitrarily set a detection condition for the object detection unit; a recording unit to record an image file generated from the image data in an external recording medium or an internal memory; and a tag information writing unit to write the detection condition in tag information of the image file when the image file is recorded, wherein the detection condition setting unit is able to reset the detection condition written in the tag information of the image file to a different detection condition, and the object detection unit carries out the detection on image data of the image file recorded in the external recording medium or the internal memory based on the detection condition reset by the detection condition setting unit, wherein the detection condition written in the tag information by the tag information writing unit is the detection condition which is set at the time the predetermined object is detected from the image data of the image file corresponding to the tag information.