Patent ID: 7996772

Claim:
An apparatus for providing a guideline for arranging images with a story, the apparatus comprising: a guideline control module to control guideline selected by a user according to a user's input or a content acquisition; an apparatus adaptive module to automatically set a state of the apparatus for providing the guideline according to the guideline selected by the user; and a context processing module to acquire contents associated with the selected guideline, wherein the guideline control module further comprises: a guideline selection input module to provide guideline information and to receive a selection of the user; an instruction providing module to provide an instruction to allow the user to easily understand the selected guideline; and a frame information proving module to provide information including a frame to allow the user to easily understand the instruction, and wherein the context processing module further comprises: a metadata extracting module to extract metadata from the contents; and a relation setting module to associate the contents with one another on the basis of the metadata.