Patent Document ID: 20140079299
Application ID: 14026038
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A person recognition apparatus comprising: an image input unit that receives image data captured by a camera; a face detecting unit that detects a face region representing a face of a person from the received image data; a facial feature information extraction unit that extracts facial feature information indicating a feature of the face of the person from the detected face region; a facial feature information storage unit that stores therein facial feature information of a person by each person; a mode selection unit that selects one of an operation mode and a setting mode, wherein in the operation mode, it is determined whether the person captured by the camera is a registered person who has been preregistered, and in the setting mode, a threshold value to be used upon the determination is set; a person determination unit that determines, as the registered person and when the operation mode is selected, a person with a degree of similarity between the extracted facial feature information and the stored facial feature information of greater than or equal to the threshold value; an output unit that outputs a determination result of the person determination unit; and a threshold value setting unit that sets, when the setting mode is selected, the threshold value based on a first degree of similarity and a second degree of similarity, wherein the first degree of similarity is a degree of similarity between facial feature information extracted by capturing the registered person with the camera and the stored facial feature information, and the second degree of similarity is a degree of similarity between facial feature information extracted by capturing a person other than the registered person with the camera and the stored facial feature information.