In step S302 of the flow of
Further, the feature quantity is, for example, an image feature quantity of an eye, a nose, a mouth, r the like indicating a feature of a human face or a feature quantity indicating a human body shape, and various existing feature quantities applied to the person detection process from the image can be used.
Further, the feature quantity extracted from the image is compared with a dictionary registration feature quantity registered in the memory which is the storage unit of the image processing apparatus, and if a degree of approximation is determined to be high, it is determined to be a person.
(Steps S303 and S304)
Then, in steps S303 and S304, the person determination process based on the collation process for the person determination feature quantity extracted from the image in the person determination detection frame and the registration data of the dictionary in which the person determination feature quantity is registered is executed.