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20110273571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUBJECT TRACKING, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM THEREOF - A subject tracking apparatus, including: a storage section that stores image data of a subject; a division section that divides the image data of the subject into a plurality of first areas; an imaging section that sequentially generates image frames; a specification section that specifies a second area similar to one of the first areas, the second area being included in each of the image frames sequentially generated, based on a characteristic value of one of the first areas into which the image data of the subject is divided by the division section; and a tracking section that tracks an image area as the subject in each of the image frames sequentially generated, wherein the image area is determined based on the second area specified by the specification section. | 11-10-2011 |
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20130202163 | SUBJECT DETERMINATION APPARATUS THAT DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT SUBJECT IS SPECIFIC SUBJECT - A subject determination apparatus includes: an image obtaining unit, first and second similarity degree determination units, an information obtaining unit, and a subject determination unit. The second similarity degree determination unit determines whether a similarity degree between a reference image and an image of a candidate region of a specific subject image in one of frame images sequentially obtained by the image obtaining unit is equal to or more than a second threshold value smaller than a first threshold value if the similarity degree is determined by the first similarity degree determination unit to be less than the first threshold value. The information obtaining unit obtains information indicating a similarity degree between the reference image and an image of a region corresponding to the candidate region in another frame image obtained a predetermined number of frames before the one frame image. | 08-08-2013 |
20130242127 | IMAGE CREATING DEVICE AND IMAGE CREATING METHOD - An image creating device includes: an acquiring unit for acquiring an image; an extracting unit for extracting feature information from a face in the image acquired by the acquiring unit; and a creating unit for creating a replaced image by replacing an image of a face region in the image acquired by the acquiring unit by other image, based on the feature information extracted by the extracting unit. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251267 | IMAGE CREATING DEVICE, IMAGE CREATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An image creating device includes: an acquiring unit, a component creation unit, an extraction unit, a specifying unit, and an image creation unit. The acquiring unit acquires an image. The component creation unit creates a face component image related to main components of a face included in the image acquired by the acquiring unit. The extraction unit extracts feature information from the face included in the image acquired by the acquiring unit. The specifying unit specifies a hair style image, which corresponds to the feature information extracted by the extraction unit, from hair style images which show outlines of hair and are associated with feature information of faces, the feature information being recorded in a recording section. The image creation unit creates a portrait image by using the hair style image specified by the specifying unit and the face component image created by the component creation unit. | 09-26-2013 |
20130343656 | IMAGE CREATING DEVICE, IMAGE CREATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Disclosed is an image creating device including a first obtaining unit which obtains an image including a face, a first extraction unit which extracts a face component image relating to main components of the face in the image and a direction of the face, a second obtaining unit which obtains a face contour image associated to the face in the image and a second extraction unit which extracts a direction of a face contour in the face contour image. The image creating device further includes a converting unit which converts at least one of the face component image and the face contour image based on the both directions of the face and the face contour and a creating unit which creates a portrait image by using at least one of the face component image and the face contour image being converted by the converting unit. | 12-26-2013 |
20140133777 | THRESHOLD SETTING APPARATUS, THRESHOLD SETTING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH PROGRAM FOR THRESHOLD SETTING METHOD IS STORED - Disclosed is a threshold setting apparatus including a creating unit which creates a plurality of images of tones by performing a tone conversion process on an original image including a subject by using a plurality of temporary thresholds which are different from each other, a subject detection unit which detects the subject in each of the plurality of images of tones which are created by the creating unit, an evaluation value calculating unit which calculates evaluation values relating to likeness to the subject from the plurality of subjects detected by the subject detection unit and associates the evaluation values with the temporary thresholds, and a setting unit which sets a threshold suited for the tone conversion of the original image based on the plurality of evaluation values calculated by the evaluation value calculating unit. | 05-15-2014 |
20140140624 | FACE COMPONENT EXTRACTION APPARATUS, FACE COMPONENT EXTRACTION METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM IN WHICH PROGRAM FOR FACE COMPONENT EXTRACTION METHOD IS STORED - Disclosed is a face component extraction apparatus including an eye detection unit which detects a plurality of combinations of eye regions, each combination forming a pair, a first calculation unit which calculates a first evaluation value for each pair of eye regions, a fitting unit which fits a plurality of extraction models for extracting a plurality of face components in the image based on a number of pairs of eye regions whose first evaluation values are equal to or greater than a predetermined value, a second calculation unit which calculates a second evaluation value for each of a number of pairs of eye regions, and a deciding unit which decides a fitting mode of the plurality of extraction models to be fitted by the fitting unit based on calculation results of a number of second evaluation values by the second calculation unit. | 05-22-2014 |
20140233858 | IMAGE CREATING DEVICE, IMAGE CREATING METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - Disclosed is an image creating device including an extraction section which extracts a plurality of feature parts of a face in an image and a creating section which creates a portrait image of the face on a basis of the feature parts extracted by the extraction section. The device further includes a specifying section which specifies, among the plurality of feature parts extracted by the extraction section, a feature part to be used as a feature in the portrait image by setting any one of a usage of the portrait image created by the creating section, a characteristic of the face and a relation between a person corresponding to the face and a user as a reference and a creation control section which control creation of the portrait image by the creating section on a basis of the feature part specified by the specifying section. | 08-21-2014 |