Patent ID: 7191398
Filing Date: 2007-03-13
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital content production system, comprising: a content storage device that stores registered digital contents; a content selection device that selects digital contents for arrangement in the content storage device; and a content production device that produces the digital content for output by determining an output layout of the digital contents for arrangement selected by the content selection device, the content production device produces the digital content for output by arranging information forming the digital contents for arrangement into a predetermined frame in a layout area, when a blank region containing no information arranged therewithin is present in the layout area after the information forming the digital contents for arrangement is arranged in the layout area, one of a plurality of information arrangement processes for arranging information into the blank region through respective different methods is selected based on a size of the blank region, and information is arranged into the blank region through the selected information arrangement process, a first information arranging process, which selects and stores the digital content based on a priority of the digital content, is selected when a number of characters storable in the blank region is in a first range of storable characters, a second information arranging process, which selects and stores digital content based on the number of characters storable in the blank region, is selected when the number of characters storable in the blank region is in a second range of storable characters that is less than the first range, and a third information arranging process, which selects and stores the digital content including text information with a minimum number of characters, is selected when the number of characters storable in the blank region is in a third range of storable characters that is less than the second range.