Sony's face detection feature for camcorders

http://blip.tv/play/Aar4JQ

Here’s a demo of the face detection feature that’s been so popular with digital camera manufacturers. This’ll be available or already is available on many of Sony’s new camcorders. One interesting part of it is called “bit allocation” wherein the camera sensor pushes more bits to the areas containing people’s faces and subtracts bits from less important things in the background that are going on.