Patent ID: 8866931

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a person image DB; a registered image database (DB) for storing at least one registered facial image; an image sensor for capturing an image of a subject; a display for displaying the captured image of the subject, the captured image including at least a portion of a facial image; and a processor operable to: process the captured image to be displayed on the display as a preview image, detect face information from series of preview images including the at least a portion of the facial image respectively, apply face recognition to the detected face information by comparing the face information to at least one registered facial image in the registered image DB, store the recognized facial image from the face recognition in the person image DB; and group the captured images into at least one classification based on the applied face recognition, wherein the processor comprises: an image selecting unit for selecting a predetermined number of the series of preview images for a predetermined time period; an image detecting unit for detecting every face area from each of series of preview images; an image tracking unit for tracking a motion of every face in order to search for an identical face; and a face collecting unit for collecting face information from the face area corresponding to an identical person collected in the image tracking unit according to a predetermined reference.