Patent ID: 7940964

Claim:
A printing method, comprising: receiving image data obtained by capturing an image including a human; analyzing the image data and extracting a part of the image including a human face; detecting a prescribed part of the extracted human face; adjusting brightness of the image data with reference to the prescribed part to obtain adjusted image data; and printing an image based on the adjusted image data, wherein the prescribed part includes a nasalis muscle and a side of the nasalis muscle, and the detecting of the prescribed part includes: detecting positions of left and right eyes in the extracted human face; defining a center point between the positions of the left and right eyes as a base of a nose; defining a point positioned downward from the center point and where the brightness is rapidly decreased, as a tip of the nose; and detecting the nasalis muscle by connecting the base of the nose and the tip of the nose, wherein the image data is so adjusted that the brightness of a part of the nasalis muscle is increased, wherein the part of the nasalis muscle to be adjusted, has a first length shorter than a length between the base of the nose and the tip of the nose, excepts both ends of the nasalis muscle, and has a first width set at a proportion with respect to the length, wherein the image data is so adjusted that the brightness of a part of the side of the nasalis muscle is decreased, and wherein the part of the side of the nasalis muscle to be adjusted has a second length which is half of the first length and a second width which is 1.5 times the first width.