Patent ID: 7881528

Claim:
A face detecting method, comprising the steps of: receiving light incident from a human subject for each color component, to obtain a plurality of pieces of pixel data; generating a raw image of the human subject employing the obtained plurality of pieces of pixel data; generating a red signal image employing red pixel data, which are among the plurality of pieces of pixel data, obtained by receiving red components of light from the human subject; generating a green signal image employing green pixel data, which are among the plurality of pieces of pixel data, obtained by receiving green components of light from the human subject; judging whether illumination during photography of the human subject was provided by a tungsten light source; detecting a facial image within the raw image by detecting the facial image within the red signal image in the case that it is judged that the illumination was provided by a tungsten light source; and detecting a facial image within the raw image by detecting the facial image within the green signal image in the case that it is judged that the illumination was not provided by a tungsten light source.