Patent Document ID: 8144944
Application ID: 11838733
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A digital camera, comprising: a body; an image sensor in the body; a communications interface in the body, the communications interface configured to establish a communication link with another digital camera; an image processor configured to receive, from the communications interface, a first data set of parameters associated with a face highlighted in a first facial area in a first image and to provide an image to the communications interface; wherein the first data set of parameters is generated by a predetermined facial recognition process; and executable program code embodied in a computer readable medium and configured to cause the image processor to: receive the first data set of parameters associated with the first facial area from the other digital camera via the communications interface; scan one or more subsequent images stored in memory accessible by the image processor; identify facial areas in the subsequent images and, using the predetermined facial recognition process, process image data associated with identified facial areas in the subsequent images to determine subsequent data sets of parameters associated with identified facial areas; compare the first and subsequent data sets to determine whether the one or more subsequent images includes a same face as the face highlighted in the first image; accumulate a set of the subsequent images that include the same face as the face highlighted in the first image; and provide images from the set of the subsequent images that include the same face to the communications interface for transmission to the other digital camera.