Imaging apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9197818-B2
Application number	US-201213682828-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 21, 2012
Priority date	Jan 26, 2009
Publication date	Nov 24, 2015
Grant date	Nov 24, 2015

Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes a determining unit operable to determine whether a subject indicated by a feature quantity information extracted by an extracting unit is a same face indicated by a feature quantity information stored in a storing unit as the registration candidate, and a display unit operable to display a screen for prompting a user to perform an operation concerning registration in accordance with number of times the determining unit determines that the subject indicated by the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit is the same subject indicated by the feature quantity information stored in the storing unit as the registration candidate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An imaging apparatus which can be set to a single shooting mode and a continuous shooting mode, comprising:
an imaging unit operable to capture a subject to generate image data;
an extracting unit operable to extract feature quantity information indicative of a feature of the subject from the image data generated by the imaging unit;
a storing unit operable to store the feature quantity information extracted by the extracting unit as a registration candi…

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Corp America

Inventors

• Mukai Tsutomu
• Nishiyama Akio
• Watanabe Jun
• Yamamoto Yasutoshi

Classifications

• H04N23/635 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N23/61

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N7/18 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N2201/0408

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N1/00249

  Electricity · mapped topic