Patent ID: 8111303

Claim:
An album creating apparatus comprising: an image acquiring section for acquiring a plurality of images in association with image capturing time and dates; a specified subject information acquiring section for acquiring specified subject information including a specified subject image being an image of a first subject related to the main character in an album at a reference time indicative of the time and date of a main event in the album and a time before the reference time; a pre-image selecting section for selecting the image acquired by the image acquiring section in association with an image capturing time and date before the reference time based on the image capturing time and dates of the plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring section and the reference time acquired by the specified subject information acquiring section; a specified subject image determining section for determining whether the image selected by the pre-image selecting section includes the first subject related to the main character by comparing the image selected by the image selecting section with the specified subject image acquired by the specified subject information acquiring section; and an album creating section for creating the album with emphasizing the image determined by the specified subject image determining section as that the first subject related to the main character is included therein, wherein the specified subject information acquiring section acquiring specified subject information including a specified subject image being an image of a second subject related to the main character in the album at the reference time indicative of the time and date of the main event in the album and a time after the reference time, the album creating apparatus further comprising a post-image selecting section for selecting the image acquired by the image acquiring section in association with an image capturing time and date after the reference time based on the image capturing time and dates of the plurality of images acquired by the image acquiring section and the reference time acquired by the specified subject information acquiring section, the specified subject image determining section determining whether the image selected by the image selecting section includes the second subject related to the main character by comparing the image selected by the image selecting section with the specified subject image acquired by the specified subject information acquiring section, and the album creating section creating the album with emphasizing the image determined by the specified subject image determining section as that the second subject related to the main character is included therein.