Patent Document ID: 20110216217
Application ID: 13109424
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image-capturing apparatus for capturing an image by using a solid-state image-capturing device, the image-capturing apparatus comprising: a face detector configured to detect a face of a human being on the basis of an image signal in a period until an image signal obtained by image capturing is recorded on a recording medium; an expression evaluation section configured to evaluate the expression of the detected face and to compute an expression evaluation value indicating the degree to which the detected face is close to a specific expression in relation to expressions other than the specific expression; and a notification section configured to notify notification information corresponding to the computed expression evaluation value to an image-captured person, wherein the expression evaluation section has prestored therein information on a determination axis obtained by performing linear discriminant analysis on the basis of a group of sample images of faces each corresponding to one of the specific expression and expressions other than the specific expression, and computes the expression evaluation value on the basis of the magnitude of projection components of a vector based on an image signal of the face detected by the face detector with respect to a vector on the determination axis.