Patent Document ID: 20070269082
Application ID: 11574177
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A surveillance recorder comprising: a picture input unit for inputting a surveillance picture; a moving object detection unit for detecting a moving object from a surveillance picture inputted by the picture input unit; a face image detection unit for detecting, from an object detected by the moving object detection unit, a part having an elliptical outline as a face image; an identity judgment unit for judging whether a face image newly detected by the face image detection unit is of a same person as a face image detected last time or not based on positions of each face image; a storage image choice unit for choosing a face image to be stored from a plurality of face images that have been judged to be of a same person by the identity judgment unit; and an image storage unit for storing in a recording medium both a face image chosen by the storage image choice unit and information for searching for the face image together.