Patent ID: 8195007

Claim:
An image selecting apparatus, comprising: plural operation indicating units that indicate arrangement places of images on an electronic album; an operator recognizing unit that acquires identification information of said plural operation indicating units; an image selecting unit that automatically selects, based on the identification information, as an image of an available image group, at least one image to be arranged on the electronic album out of an image group; an operator-information storing unit that stores recognition information of operators, wherein: said operator recognizing unit acquires the recognition information tied to the identification information from said operator-information storing unit, and transmits the recognition information to said image selecting unit; said image selecting unit selects the available image group based on the recognition information received; an arrangement determining unit that determines propriety of arrangement of the images in the arrangement places; and an arrangement instructing unit that determines images to be arranged in the determined arrangement places out of the available image group, and arranges the images.