Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program

Details Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program Album generating apparatus, album generating method and program

2006-03-15

2011-12-27

Fleurantin, Jean B (Department: 2162)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Preparing data for information retrieval

C707S812000, C345S656000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08086612

ABSTRACT:
There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time. The album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images by correlating with the image capturing time and position of the images, a importance judging section for judging importance of the image capturing time and image capturing position in the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image capturing time sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the image capturing time stored in the image storing section when the importance judging section judges that the importance of the image capturing time is greater than that of the image capturing position, an image capturing position sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page of the album based on the image capturing position stored in the image storing section when the importance judging section judges that the importance of the image capturing position is greater than that of the image capturing time and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted per page by the image capturing time sorting section or the image capturing position sorting section to each page of the album.

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