JP2008219451A5

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Publication number: JP2008219451A5
Application number: JP2007053646A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2007-03-05
Publication date: 2011-01-13

Claims

An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit that shoots a scene and generates image data representing the scene; and a recording unit that records image data generated by the imaging unit on a predetermined recording medium,
A person extracting means for extracting an image region representing a person by analyzing the image data generated by the imaging means;
Non-person extraction means for extracting a main subject other than a person by analyzing an image area other than the image area extracted by the person extraction means of the image data generated by the imaging means;
Based on the extraction results of the person extracting means and the non-person extracting means, it is evaluated whether or not the arrangement of the person and the main subject satisfies a predetermined condition, and the composition of the image data is determined based on the evaluation of the arrangement. Composition determination means for determining pass / fail;
Using the extraction results of the person extracting means and the non-person extracting means to determine an arrangement that satisfies the predetermined condition of the person and the main subject;
An image pickup apparatus comprising: an image processing unit that performs image processing on the image data so that the arrangement of the person and the main subject is an arrangement determined by the composition proposal unit.

A recording control unit configured to determine a timing for recording the image data based on a determination result of the composition determination unit, and to control the recording unit so that the image data is recorded at the determined timing; The imaging apparatus according to claim 1 .

The imaging apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising notification means for determining a timing for recording image data based on a determination result of the composition determination means and notifying arrival of the determined timing.

Wherein the recording means, the extraction result of the person extracting means and the non-person extracting means, the image pickup apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the recording on the recording medium together with the image data.

The person extracting means searches for a face included in the image data, and outputs, as the extraction result, information indicating the number of faces detected by the search, the position of each face, and the size of each face. imaging device according to any one of claims 1, wherein 4.

The imaging apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein the person extracting unit identifies facial expressions detected by the search, and further outputs information indicating the identified facial expressions.

The said person extraction means identifies the gesture of the person contained in the said image data, The information which shows the identified gesture is output as the said extraction result, The any one of Claim 1 to 6 characterized by the above-mentioned. Imaging device.

The non-person extracting means, by performing filtering processing using a high pass filter to the image data, the image pickup apparatus of any one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that to extract the main subject.

The non-person extracting means, by identifying the pre-registered predetermined object among objects included in the image data, according to claim 1 to 8, characterized in that to extract the subject as the main subject The imaging apparatus of any one of Claims.

Voice analysis means for detecting a predetermined feature of the voice by analyzing the input voice;
Said composition determination means, on the basis of the evaluation of the arrangement with the features of the voice detected by the voice analysis means, any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that to determine the quality of the composition of the image data The imaging apparatus according to 1.

11. The imaging apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the recording unit records the extraction result of the person extraction unit and the non-person extraction unit and the detection result of the sound analysis unit together with the image data on the recording medium. .

The imaging apparatus according to claim 10 or 11 , wherein the voice analysis means detects a predetermined volume change as a characteristic of the voice.

The imaging apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the voice analysis unit detects a predetermined voice phrase as a feature of the voice.

The imaging apparatus according to claim 10 , wherein the voice analysis unit detects a characteristic registered in advance as a voice characteristic of a predetermined person as the voice characteristic.

An imaging apparatus control method comprising: an imaging unit that captures a scene and generates image data representing the scene; and a recording unit that records the image data generated by the imaging unit on a predetermined recording medium,
By analyzing the image data generated by the imaging means, an image region representing a person is extracted,
By analyzing an image area other than the image area representing the person in the image data generated by the imaging means, a main subject other than the person is extracted,
Evaluate whether the extracted person and main subject placement meet a given condition,
Determining the quality of the composition of the image data based on the evaluation of the arrangement;
Determining an arrangement of the extracted person and main subject that satisfies the predetermined condition;
An imaging apparatus control method, wherein image processing is performed on the image data so that the arrangement of the person and the main subject is the determined arrangement.