Patent ID: 8077216
Filing Date: 2011-12-13
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging section; an information storage section which stores information to define features of a face image; a setting section which sets a detection precision of a face region; a display section which displays an indicator indicating the detection precision set by the setting section together with a subject successively imaged by the imaging section; a control section which limits information read from the information storage section in accordance with the detection precision set by the setting section to control detection of the face region from the successively imaged subject; a display control section which, when the face region is detected through the control by the control section, controls the display section so as to display a face frame indicator in the detected face region of the subject in addition to the successively imaged subject and the indicator indicating the detection precision; and a recording section which processes and records a taken image based on image information of the face region where the face frame indicator is displayed by the display control section; wherein the detection precision of the face region set by the setting section includes a first mode in which priority is given to face region detection speed and a second mode in which priority is given to face region detection precision; wherein the setting section includes a selection detection section which selects one of the first and second modes; wherein the information storage section stores a permissible rotation range of the face image as information with respect to a plurality of angles; and wherein, when the mode selected by the selection detection section is the first mode, the control section performs control to reduce a permissible rotation range read from the information storage section as compared with a case in which the second mode is selected and detected, so as to detect the face region from the subject imaged by the imaging section.