Patent ID: 8411114
Filing Date: 2013-04-02
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image display device, comprising: a storage unit that stores a plurality of templates for image arrangement, each of the plurality of templates includes at least one of a portrait format arrangement region for arranging a portrait format image, and a landscape format image arrangement region for arranging a landscape format image; a number of images to be arranged setting unit that sets a number of arrangement subject images (i.e. a number of images to be arranged) to be arranged within the plurality of templates for image arrangement; a number of images to be arranged change unit that changes the number of images to be arranged set by the number of images to be arranged setting unit; an image selection unit that selects the arrangement subject images from among photographic images that have been photographed in advance; a decision unit that makes a decision whether orientations of the arrangement subject images selected by the image selection unit are in a portrait format or a landscape format; a template selection unit that selects a template for image arrangement, as a subject template to be used for arranging the arrangement subject images, from among the plurality of templates for image arrangement stored in the storage unit, based on the number of images to be arranged set by the number of images to be arranged setting unit, and based on the decision by the decision unit; a creation unit that creates an image for display by arranging the arrangement subject images in the image arrangement regions within the subject template selected by the template selection unit; and a display control unit that displays the image for display created by the creation unit upon a display device, wherein if the number of images to be arranged change unit changes to reduce a number of images to be arranged, the template selection unit changes a selection of the template to arrange the images being shifted forward in order, and if the number of images to be arranged change unit changes to increase a number of images to be arranged, the template selection unit changes a selection of the template to arrange the images being shifted backward in order.