Patent ID: 8090196

Claim:
An album creating apparatus for creating an album including an image, comprising: a processor programmed to control: a main subject determining section for determining a main subject of the image; an image color analyzing section for analyzing a color in an image region other than the main subject determined by the main subject determining section; and an album color determining section for determining colors used for a region other than the image in the album including the image based on the result of analysis of the image color analyzing section, wherein the image color analyzing section includes: a color extraction section for extracting a plurality of colors included in the image region other than the main subject determined by the main subject determining section; and an appearance frequency of color calculating section for calculating the appearance frequency of the plurality of colors extracted by the color extraction section, and wherein the album color determining section includes: a characteristic color determining section for determining a characteristic color in the image region other than the main subject determined by the main subject determining section based on the appearance frequency of the plurality of colors calculated by the color appearance calculating section; and an album color selecting section for selecting a color used for the album which is used in the region other than the image in the album including the image based on the characteristic color determined by the characteristic color determining section.