Patent ID: 8761461
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit configured to shoot an image; a recording unit configured to record the shot image in a nonvolatile recording medium; a face detection unit configured to detect a face of a person from the shot image; a feature value extraction unit configured to extract a feature value as information about personal appearance from the face of the person; a collation unit configured to calculate the degree of similarity between the feature value of the face of the person extracted by said feature value extraction unit and a feature value of a face of any one of registered persons, each of which has a feature value of a face preliminarily stored; an identification unit configured to identify, when the calculated degree of similarity is equal to or greater than a threshold, that the face of the person, of which the feature value is extracted, corresponds to the face of any one of the registered persons; and a display unit configured to display the identification result of said identification unit, wherein said identification unit sets the threshold to a first value before recording of the shot image to the nonvolatile recording medium is started; and sets the threshold to a second value which is greater than the first value, for the face of one of the registered persons who has not been identified at the time of starting the recording of the shot image, and sets the threshold to a third value which is equal to or greater than the first value and less than the second value, for the face of one of the registered persons who is already identified at the time of starting the recording of the shot image, after the recording of the shot image to the nonvolatile recording medium is started after said display unit has displayed the identification result of said identification unit.