Patent Document ID: 20110254981
Application ID: 13169282
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A photographing apparatus comprising: a photographing means for obtaining image data by taking a photograph of a subject; an input means for switching a photography mode; a display means for displaying various kinds of information including the image data; a release means for performing photographing operation; a storage means for storing various kinds of information including the image data; a photographing control means for obtaining a moving image of the subject by continuously taking photographs with the photographing means and for displaying the moving image on the display means; a face judgment means for judging in a predetermined time interval, based on a predetermined photography mode to which the photography mode has been switched, whether a human face is included in a frame included in the moving image until a positive result is obtained in the judgment; a face detection means for detecting a facial position in a frame that has been judged to include the face, if the face judgment means judges that the face is included in the frame; an image processing means for performing red-eye correction processing on the image data; a control means for controlling the photographing means, the face judgment means, the face detection means, the image processing means, and the storage means so that the detected facial position is stored in the storage means, and judgment is made as to whether the face is included in the next frame after the predetermined time, and if the judgment is positive, the facial position is detected, and until the release means performs the photographing operation, judgment is made as to whether the face is included in the next frame further after the predetermined time, and if it is judged that the face is included in the frame, the facial position is detected, and the newly detected facial position is stored in the storage means, and a frame obtained when the release means performs the photographing operation or a plurality of temporally precedent and/or subsequent frames of the obtained frame are taken as the image data, red-eye correction processing is administered on the image data, and the image data on which the red-eye correction has been performed is stored in the storage means.