Patent ID: 8165344

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: an input unit which inputs moving image data of frames; a detect unit which detects a face region of a person from the moving image data of frames inputted to the input unit; a reference information acquisition unit which acquires reference information in accordance with the face region of the person detected by the detect unit, the reference information forming a reference for identifying a constituent part including a person's face and a hand; a constituent part region extraction unit which extracts, in accordance with the reference information, a constituent part region where the constituent part including the person's face and the hand are situated, from the moving image data of each of the frames inputted after the frame from which the reference information has been acquired by the reference information acquisition unit; a priority region setting unit which includes the constituent part region including the person's face and the hand extracted from the constituent part region extraction unit, and sets a priority region that is a region that carries out prescribed information processing preferentially, as the moving image data of each of the frames inputted after the frame from which the reference information has been acquired by the reference information acquisition unit; a processing unit which carries out the prescribed information processing preferentially in the priority region set by the priority region setting unit, wherein the priority region is a single region comprising the constituent part region including the person's face and the hand.