Patent ID: 7944578

Claim:
An album provision system comprising: an image acquiring section for acquiring an image from a user; an album creating section for laying out the image acquired by the image acquiring section to create an album; a film applying section for applying a viewing protection film to prevent the image from being viewed on the image laid out in the album created by the image creating section; a film presence determining section for determining whether the viewing protection film applied by the film applying section is still applied on the image laid out in the album returned from the user when the album including the image on which the viewing protection film is applied on the image by the film applying section is provided to the user and then returned from the user; and a charging section for charging the user when the film presence determining section determines that the viewing protection film is not applied on the image; further comprising a film propriety determining section for determining whether the viewing protection film applied on the image laid out in the album returned from the user is the viewing protection film which has been properly applied by the film applying section when the film presence determining section determines that the viewing protection film is applied on the image, wherein the charging section charges the user when the film propriety determining section determines that the viewing protection film applied on the image is not properly applied; an image storage section for storing image data of the image laid out in the album, wherein the film propriety determining section including: an image difference function storage section for storing an image difference function indicative of the difference between the appearance of the image viewed through the viewing protection film and the appearance of the image viewed without through the viewing protection film; an image appearance calculating section for calculating the appearance of the image viewed through the viewing protection film from the image data stored in the image storage section using the image difference function stored in the image difference function storage section; an image capturing section for capturing the appearance of the image laid out in the album returned from the user through the viewing protection film; and an image appearance comparison determining section for determining whether the viewing protection film applied on the image laid out in the album returned from the user is the viewing protection film properly applied by the film applying section by comparing the appearance of the image calculated by the image appearance calculating section with the appearance of the image captured by the image capturing section.