Patent ID: 8634602
Filing Date: 2014-01-21
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. An electronic device with a function of searching images based on a facial feature comprising: a capturing unit configured to capture facial images; a storage unit configured to store a plurality of images; an acquiring module configured to acquire a facial feature of the facial image captured by the capturing unit; a searching module configured to search for images that include the acquired facial feature from the plurality of images stored in the storage unit; a folder establishing module configured to establish a new folder and store the searched images to the established new folder; a prompting module configured to prompt a user whether to encrypt the new folder; and an encrypting module configured to take the acquired facial feature as an encryption key to encrypt the new folder when the user selects to encrypt the new folder; a validating module configured to prompt the user to input a facial image when the user wants to open the encrypted folder; and wherein the acquiring module is further configured to acquire the facial feature of the facial image in response an image input operation from the user; and the validating module is further configured to validate whether the acquired facial feature is consistent with the encryption key for encrypting the folder.