US Patent No: 8,208,035
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Image sensing apparatus, image capturing method, and program related to face detection
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Jun 26, 2012
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Jul 28, 2009
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12/510,873
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Abstract
An image sensing apparatus comprises an image sensing unit configured to sense an object and generate image data, a face detection unit configured to detect a face region of a person contained in the image data generated by the image sensing unit, and a facial expression determination unit configured to determine a plurality of facial expressions in the face region determined by the face detection unit. When both a first facial expression and a second facial expression are determined, the facial expression determination unit corrects a condition to determine the second facial expression so as to become difficult as compared to the determination condition when the first facial expression is not determined and the second facial expression is determined.
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| 7,986,346 Image capturing apparatus, control method therefor, program, and storage medium | 2 | 2007 | |
| 2008/0285,791 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME | 3 | 2008 | |
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| 2011/0032,378 FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION APPARATUS, IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS, FACIAL EXPRESSION RECOGNITION METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM | 2 | 2009 | |
| 2010/0033,591 IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR | 1 | 2009 | |
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| 2009/0066,803 IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS PERFORMING AUTOMATIC PHOTOGRAPHING PROCESSING, IMAGE PICKUP METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDED WITH PROGRAM THEREOF | 2 | 2008 | |
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