Patent ID: 8086612
Filing Date: 2011-12-27
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An album generating apparatus, comprising: an image storing section for storing images by correlating with image capturing time and image capturing position of the images; an importance judging section for judging importance of the image capturing time and image capturing position in the plurality of images stored in said image storing section; an image capturing time sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in said image storing section per page in the album based on the image capturing time stored in said 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 said image storing section per page of the album based on the image capturing position stored in said image storing section when said importance judging section judges that the importance of the image capturing position is greater than that of the image capturing time; a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted per page by said image capturing time sorting section or said image capturing position sorting section to each page of the album; a main image selecting section for selecting a main image that is to be a primary image in a predetermined page of the album out of the images sorted into said predetermined page by said image capturing time sorting section or image capturing position sorting section; and a subsidiary image selecting section for selecting a subsidiary image that is to be an image subsidiary to the main image selected by said main image selecting section in said predetermined page in the album out of the images sorted into said predetermined page by said image capturing time sorting section or said image capturing position sorting section based on contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section; wherein said layout determining section lays out the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary image selected by said subsidiary image selecting section into said predetermined page of the album based on the contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary image selected by said subsidiary image selecting section.