Patent ID: 8704913

Claim:
An image recording apparatus comprising: an image recording unit configured to record a plurality of image data items to which shooting information containing shooting locations is added; an image selection unit configured to select, from the image recording unit, a plurality of image data items to be used in creating an electronic photo album; an electronic photo album creation unit configured to arrange each of the image data items selected by the image selection unit on any one of a plurality of pages included in the electronic photo album to create an electronic photo album; a map storage unit configured to store map information; a map range determination unit configured to determine a map range that includes all of the shooting locations of the image data items selected by the image selection unit, such that a size of the map range varies in accordance with the shooting locations of the image data items selected by the image selection unit; a map image creation unit configured to create a map image of the map range determined by the map range determination unit based on the map information; a superimposition unit configured to superimpose symbols representing the shooting locations of the image data items selected by the image selection unit on the map image created by the map image creation unit; and an index page insertion unit configured to insert the map image on which symbols have been superimposed by the superimposition unit into the electronic photo album in the form of an index page of the electronic photo album.