Patent Document ID: 7925061
Application ID: 11808464
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A person imaging apparatus comprising: an information storage device for storing informational data, which represents a number of items of information such as moving pictures, still images and audio, in correspondence with probabilities that a person will be caused to laugh; an information presenting device for presenting one item of information, from among the number of items of informational data that have been stored in said information storage device, to a person who is the subject of photography; an image sensing device for sensing the image of a person and outputting image data representing the image of the person; a first imaging control device for controlling said image sensing device in such a manner that the image of the person is sensed in response to presentation of the information by said information presenting device; a laughing-face determination device for determining whether the image of the person represented by the image data that has been output from the image sensing device has a laughing face; and a first information updating device for updating probabilities that have been stored in said information storage device in such a manner that the probability corresponding to the information that has been presented by said information presenting device will be raised, updating being performed in response to a determination by said laughing-face determination device that the image of the person has a laughing face.