IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE AND PORTRAIT RIGHT PROTECTION METHOD IN THE SAME DEVICE

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the invasion of the privacy or portrait right of a third person when disclosing a photographic image in an image pickup device. PSOLUTION: This image pickup device for acquiring image data by imaging an object, and for detecting a prescribed object from the acquired image data is configured to determine whether or not each of one or more detected objects (K1 to K4) is valid or not based on information including at least one of the size, position, change quantity and focusing evaluation value of the object, and applies portrait right protection processing to the object (for example, K4) determined as an invalid object. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT