HEALTH CHECKUP METHOD AND HEALTH CHECKUP APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a health checkup method and a health checkup apparatus capable of judging a health condition accurately and easily by using of a face image. SOLUTION: In an image of a user face, the color information of the eye part is difficult to be affected by the lighting condition and the health condition and the face color information is corrected from the eye color information to perform color correction of the face color information (step S270). Then the health condition of the user is determined corresponding to the face color information after correction (step S280). By using of the eye color information which is difficult to be affected by the lighting condition, the color correction of the face color information can be performed without setting the predetermined color standard differently, and the determination of health condition from the face color can be performed accurately and easily. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT