Patent Document ID: 20080292148
Application ID: 12120688
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image editing apparatus comprising: an image input unit including an image pickup circuit which takes a picture of a subject to obtain an image of a subject; a face detection circuit which detects an image of a face of the subject from the image obtained from the image input unit; a face expression detection circuit which detects at least any one of direction and expression of the face of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit; a pupil detection circuit which detects images of pupils of the subject, based on the image of the face detected by the face detection circuit; and a catch-light composition circuit which composes different catch-lights on the images of the pupils detected by the pupil detection circuit, according to any one of the direction and expression of the face detected by the face expression detection circuit.