Image pickup device with facial region detector and method...

Details Image pickup device with facial region detector and method... Image pickup device with facial region detector and method...

2004-08-12

2008-10-21

Ye, Lin (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Combined image signal generator and general image signal...

C348S333050, C382S284000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07440013

ABSTRACT:
An image pickup device is constituted by a handset of cellular phone, wherein an image pickup unit photographs a user as first object, to output image data of a first image frame. A facial region detecting circuit retrieves a facial image portion of the user as first object according to image data of the first image frame. An image synthesizing circuit is supplied with image data of a second image frame including persons as second object. The facial image portion is synthesized in a background region being defined outside the persons as second object within the second image frame.

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T. Jokela, “Authoring Tools for Mobile Multimedia Content”, Nokia Research Center, IEEE ICME 2003, vol. 2, Jul. 6, 2003, pp. 637-640.

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