Patent ID: 8345118
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G06F,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An album creating apparatus comprising: an image storage section for storing personal identification information indicative of a person included in an image in association with the image; a related personal information storage section for storing related personal information associated with the personal identification information on the persons closely related to each other; a related personal information extraction section for extracting the personal identification information on a person closely related to a designated person who is designated by a user based on the related personal information stored in the related personal information storage section; an image selecting section for selecting the image stored in the image storage section in association with the personal identification information extracted by the related personal information extraction section; an album creating section for creating an album including the image selected by the image selecting section; and a designated personal image extraction section for extracting an designated personal image stored in the image storage section in association with personal identification information indicative of the designated person, wherein the album creating section includes an image classification section for classifying the related personal image selected by the image selecting section and the designated personal image extracted by the designated personal image extraction section.