| US 7,454,041 B2 | ||
| Person recognition apparatus | ||
| Hiroshi Sukegawa, Yokohama (Japan); Kentaro Yokoi, Yokohama (Japan); Jun Ogata, Tokyo (Japan); Toshio Sato, Yokohama (Japan); and Akio Okazaki, Yokohama (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Sep. 06, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/515,918. | ||
| Application 11/515918 is a division of application No. 10/226329, filed on Aug. 23, 2002, granted, now 7,120,278. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2001-254774 (JP), filed on Aug. 24, 2001; application No. 2001-335842 (JP), filed on Oct. 31, 2001; and application No. 2001-341040 (JP), filed on Nov. 06, 2001. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0031010 A1, Feb. 08, 2007 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 9/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 382—118 [340/5.53; 340/5.83; 382/190; 382/218; 382/305] | 10 Claims |
| 1. A person recognition apparatus for recognizing a person by a face image, comprising:
a storage unit which stores face images of users, and also stores, for a face image having a similar face image, information
indicating the existence of the similar face image;
a photographing unit which photographs a face image of a user;
a first face collator which collates the face image photographed by said photographing unit with a plurality of face images
stored in said storage unit; and
a second face collator which, in a case where information indicating the existence of a face image similar to the face image
collated by said first face collator is stored in said storage unit, performs face image collation by a collating process
different from the process performed by said first face collator.
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