Patent Document ID: 8306285
Application ID: 13169282
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A photographing apparatus comprising: a photographing device for obtaining image data of a subject; a display for displaying the image data; a release device for performing a photographing operation; a memory for storing facial position data; a storage for storing the image data; a photographing control device for obtaining a moving image of the subject by continuously obtaining image data with the photographing device and displaying the moving image on the display; a face judgment device for performing processing, at predetermined or varying time intervals, for judging whether a human face is included in a frame of the moving image; a face detection device for detecting a facial position in the frame, in the case that the frame has been judged to include a face by the face judgment device; and a control device for controlling the photographing device, the face judgment device, the face detection device, the memory, and the storage so that a judgment is made as to whether the face is included in a first frame of the moving image, and if the judgment is positive, a first facial position is detected, the first facial position is stored in the memory, and judgment is made as to whether the face is included in a second frame of the moving image after the predetermined or varying time interval, and if it is judged that the face is included in the second frame, a second facial position is detected, and the second facial position is either stored in the memory or replaces the first facial position stored in the memory, wherein a frame obtained when the release device performs the photographing operation is stored in a recording medium as an image.