Patent ID: 8620019

Claim:
An electronic apparatus comprising: an image capture section configured to capture an image that comprises one or more faces; a face image extractor section configured to extract a face image of at least one of the faces in the captured image; a memory section configured to store contacts, where at least a subset of the contacts include respective face images of subjects and respectively corresponding personal information of the subjects; a processing section configured to: determine whether the extracted face image matches one of the face images stored in the memory section for which corresponding personal information is also stored, and if the extracted face image matches one of the face images stored in the memory section, perform a linking process of linking the extracted face image with the personal information corresponding to the face image that was determined to match; and a display section configured to display a modified version of the captured image in which a face image corresponding to the one of the faces in the captured image from which the extracted face image was extracted is displayed in a first mode if the extracted face image has been linked with personal information by the linking process and is displayed in a second mode if the extracted face image has not been linked with personal information by the linking process, wherein the first mode and the second mode respectively comprise distinct modifications of the face image corresponding to the one of the faces in the captured image from which the extracted face image was extracted, and wherein, when a face image is displayed in the second mode, a function is enabled whereby a user may select the face image that is displayed in the second mode then select to generate an email message and select a recipient from among the contacts stored in the memory section, whereupon the processing section automatically generates an email message that includes in an address field thereof an email address associated with the selected contact and that includes an image corresponding to the face image that is displayed in the second mode.