IP Library Granted Patent US 8,570,431
Granted Patent B2
US 8,570,431 · App. 12/559,737 · Granted Oct 29, 2013

Mobile electronic device having camera

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,570,431
App. No.
12/559,737
Granted
Oct 29, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile electronic device including: a camera unit configured to capture a subject image and generate an image signal; a display unit configured to receive the image signal and display a captured image based on the image signal; an acquisition unit configured to acquire detection area information as information about a focusable area that is an area excluding, from the captured image, areas regarded as unfocusable for the camera unit to focus on; a face detection unit configured to detect face-including regions, each of which including face image of the subject and existing in the focusable area from the image signal, based on the detection area information; and a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display face regions on the captured image based on the face-including regions detected by the face detection unit.

Claims (6)

1. A mobile electronic device comprising:

a camera unit configured to capture a subject image and generate an image signal;

a display unit configured to receive the image signal and display a captured image based on the image signal;

an acquisition unit configured to acquire detection area information as information about a focusable area that is an area excluding an unfocusable area from the captured image, the focusable area and the unfocusable area each including one or more face images;

a face detection unit configured to detect face-including regions, each of which including a face image of the subject included in the focusable area from the image signal, based on the detection area information; and

a display control unit configured to control the display unit to display face regions on the captured image based on the face-including regions detected by the face detection unit.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 16, 2013
From: FUJITSU TOSHIBA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
To: FUJITSU MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 029645/0103 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 1, 2010
From: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
To: FUJITSU TOSHIBA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED
Reel/Frame 025433/0713 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 15, 2009
From: KAWASHIMA, SHINICHI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Reel/Frame 023231/0722 →