Patent ID: 7415137
Filing Date: 2008-08-19
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An image processing method, comprising: a face probability calculating step of identifying candidates for a human face region within an image and calculating a human face probability that each candidate for the human face region represents a human face; a portrait probability calculating step of multiplying a value corresponding to one human face probability of one candidate by values of the other human face probabilities of the other candidates and outputting a portrait probability that the image is a portrait; and a determining step of determining whether the image is the portrait by comparing the portrait probability with a threshold value, wherein said portrait probability calculating step includes a selecting step of selecting higher K human face probabilities from among the human face probabilities for the candidates calculated in said face probability calculating step and a multiplying step of multiplying a value corresponding to one of the selected K human face probabilities by the values corresponding to the other selected K human face probabilities.