Abstract: A method for recognizing a face area is disclosed. The method is suitable for determining a face block from multiple images. First, the differences between the constituent colors of each pixel are compared so as to determine skin color pixels from the pixels. Then, a skin color block that covers all of the skin color pixels is found from the images and compared with an ellipse. The size and location of the ellipse is adjusted to overlap the skin color block such that the block covered by the ellipse is regarded as a face block. Through the foregoing steps, the present invention reduces the searching area for face recognition and achieves the goal of accelerating recognizing speed and increasing accuracy of face recognition.