Patent ID: 8040551
Filing Date: 2011-10-18
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image album creating system, comprising: an image album orderer's apparatus for ordering to make an image album; and an image album creating apparatus for creating the image album by using images provided from said image album orderer's apparatus; wherein said image album orderer's apparatus has an image quality converting section for generating a low image-quality image by lowering image quality of an original image; an image information adding section for correlating image information concerning said original image, that can be specified from said original image and the image information cannot be specified from said low image-quality image, said image information being added to each one of said low image-quality images; a low image-quality image transmitting section for transmitting said low image-quality images generated by said image quality converting section to said image album creating apparatus; and an image information transmitting section for transmitting image information correlated by said image information adding section to each one of said low image-quality images to said image album creating apparatus by correlating with each one of said low image-quality images, wherein said low-quality images have a lower data amount than corresponding original images, and wherein said low-image quality transmitting section, said image information transmitting section, said image information adding section, and said image quality conversion section are implemented in at least a first processing device; and said image album creating apparatus has a low image-quality image receiving section for receiving said low image-quality images transmitted by said low image-quality image transmitting section; an image information receiving section for receiving said image information concerning said original image by correlating with each one of said low image-quality images received by said low image-quality image receiving section; an image selecting section for receiving said low image-quality images to be allocated to the image album from said low image-quality images received by said low image-quality image receiving section by analyzing said low image-quality image and said image information; and a selected image notifying section for notifying the image album orderer of said low image-quality images selected by said image selecting section, wherein said low-image quality receiving section, said image information receiving section, said image selecting section, and said image notifying section are implemented in at least a second processing device, further comprising: a plurality of layout frames, each of the layout, frames indicating a position in the image album where an image is to be located and having an identifying information to identify an image to be allocated, further comprising: an image processing method storing section for storing image processing methods for reducing an amount of data of the images allocated to a layout frame where the images are to be allocated in said image album by correlating with the layout frame; and an image processing method extracting section for extracting the image processing method stored in said image processing method storing section per low image-quality image by correlating with the layout frame in which said original image corresponding to said low image-quality image selected by said image selecting section is allocated; wherein said selected image notifying section notifies the orderer of said image album of the image processing method per said low image-quality image obtained by said image processing method extracting section together with said low image-quality image selected by said image selecting section, a selected image receiving section for receiving processed image that is what image processing specified by the image processing method per said low image-quality image extracted by said image processing method extracting section has been performed on said original image from said image album orderer's apparatus, and an image album creating section for creating the image album by allocating said processed images received by said selected image receiving section.