Patent ID: 8363910

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a facial image extraction portion configured to specify a facial region of an imaged subject within at least one sequentially input selection-eligible image and to extract from a selection-eligible image in the at least one sequentially input selection-eligible image a facial image that corresponds to the facial region; an eligibility determination portion configured to determine whether the imaged subject is eligible for image selection; a positivity computation portion configured to compute for the selection-eligible image, using the facial image and information indicating at least one of a date and time of acquisition of the selection-eligible image and a location of the acquisition of the selection-eligible image, a positivity of the imaged subject toward a person who acquired the at least one selection-eligible image if the eligibility determination portion determines that the imaged subject is eligible for image selection; and a selected image update portion configured to compare the selection-eligible image for which the positivity was computed in the positivity computation portion to a selection candidate image that has a greatest positivity among all the selection-eligible images for the same imaged subject for which the positivities have already been computed, and to make the image with a greater positivity a new selection candidate image.