Patent ID: 7916904
Filing Date: 2011-03-29
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A face region detecting device comprising: an image capturing means capturing a face of an observed person; a position detecting means detecting, from a face image expressing the face captured by the image capturing means, one of a position expressing a characteristic of a nose and a position expressing a characteristic of a region between eyebrows; a computing means computing a past relative position of an eye of the face that is based on the position detected in the past by the position detecting means; and a region position detecting means detecting a position of the eye that is expressed by a vertical direction position of a boundary between a lower eyelid and an eyeball in the face image, and a left-right direction position of a boundary between an upper eyelid and the eyeball, on the basis of the past relative position computed by the computing means and the current position detected by the position detecting means.