Patent Document ID: 9832427
Application ID: 14370793
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A camera comprising: a non-transitory memory that stores a program; and a hardware processor that executes the program and causes the camera to operates as: a capture unit that generates an image by capturing an area in which an evaluation-use object is present; a calculation unit that analyzes the image, and thereby detects the evaluation-use object in the image and calculates meaningful information from the evaluation-use object in the image; an object information acquisition unit that acquires and stores object information that is meaningful to a user and derived from the evaluation-use object; and an evaluation unit that performs an evaluation that includes comparing the meaningful information and the object information, and thereby calculating a degree of matching between the meaningful information and the object information, the evaluation determining whether or not a desired result is obtained from the image, wherein the meaningful information is a result of person recognition performed by the calculation unit on the evaluation-use object in the image, the meaningful information denoting a sex of persons recognized as being included in the evaluation-use object in the image, the capture unit generates a plurality of images by performing the capturing a plurality of times, the calculation unit performs the analysis, the detection, and the calculation with respect to each of the images generated by the capture unit, the evaluation unit performs the comparison of the meaningful information and the object information with respect to each instance of the meaningful information calculated by the calculation unit, and, as the degree of matching, calculates information regarding the number of matches between the meaningful information and the object information, and when the degree of matching is in a predefined range, the evaluation unit determines that a desired result is obtained from the image.