Patent ID: 8116537

Claim:
An image player system, comprising an image recording device, having image input means for inputting an image containing a subject, and a player device for playing the image input to the image recording device, wherein the image recording device includes: face detection means for detecting a face of the subject contained in the input image; face data generation means for generating face data related to the face based on the detected face; face data management information generation means for generating face data management information managing the generated face data; and record control means for controlling recording of the generated face data and the generated face data management information onto predetermined recording means, the face data including a plurality of information components, the information components being recorded in a predetermined recording sequence, the face data management information being in a data structure having a train of bits assigned in the recording sequence of the information components of the face data, and containing face data structure information related to a presence or absence of the information component of the face data in the recording sequence; and wherein the player device includes: information component verification means for verifying the presence or absence of the information component forming the face data in accordance with the face data structure information contained in the face data management information; recording offset value calculating means for calculating a recording offset value from a head of each face data of a desired information component out of information components forming the face data verified by the information component verification means; and information component reading means for reading the desired information component out of the information components forming the face data in accordance with the calculated recording offset value.