Patent ID: 7324670

Claim:
A face image processing apparatus, comprising: a face region detecting unit including a plurality of face region detecting sections each configured to detect a face feature point of a person to be identified from one of a plurality of images picked up by a plurality of imaging units, respectively, to detect a face region; a face feature extracting unit including a plurality of face feature extracting sections each configured to extract a face feature from one of the images corresponding to the face region detected by one of the plurality of face region detecting sections; a photograph judging unit configured to compare a first face feature extracted by a first one of the plurality of face feature extracting sections with a second face feature extracted by a second one of the plurality of face feature extracting sections to judge whether a photographic subject imaged by the plurality of imaging units is a photograph; a person recognizing unit configured to calculate a similarity measure based on a face feature of a specific person being previously registered and a face feature determined from the face features extracted by the face feature extracting sections, to recognize the person to be identified; and an output apparatus providing a recognition result received from the person recognizing unit.