Method, device and terminal for automatically adjusting adult level of television program

The invention is suitable for the field of televisions and provides a method, a device and a terminal for automatically adjusting an adult level of a television program. The method comprises the following steps of: monitoring watcher image acquisition time; judging whether the watcher image acquisition time is up; if so, acquiring the watcher image; performing face recognition on the acquired watcher image; performing age recognition on the watcher according to the age characteristics of the face; acquiring the minimum age of the watcher; and adjusting the adult level of the available television program in a monitoring period. The method, the device and the terminal automatically acquire the watcher image, perform the age recognition on the watcher according to the characteristics of different age groups of the face and set the adult level of the available television program according to the age of the watcher so as to realize the automatic and dynamic adjustment of the adult level of the available television program of the digital television and effectively reduce influences on juveniles from bad program information.