Patent ID: 7808686

Claim:
A picture editor comprising: a pictorial data storing unit that stores color pictorial data of a plurality of pictures; a pictorial data analyzing unit that performs an operation to analyze and digitize each kind of pictorial information on brightness, saturation and hue of the color pictorial data stored in the pictorial data storing unit; an average data operation unit that performs an operation to average the pictorial information analyzed in the pictorial data analyzing unit; a color table that stores a plurality of color image ranks whereby the pictures are divided into a plurality of groups according to the averaged pictorial information of the pictures, and the pictures divided into the groups and images of the color pictorial data of the pictures are classified, a predetermined value range being allotted corresponding to each of the color image ranks in each of the averaged pictorial information; a data adding unit that sets one of the color image ranks matching the pictorial information of the color pictorial data which is averaged in the average data operation unit that performs the operation to average the pictorial information based on the color table, and adds an information code of the set color image rank to the color pictorial data, the one color image rank being determined so that a difference between a value of the pictorial information averaged in the average data operation unit and a center value of each predetermined value range becomes a least value in all of the predetermined value ranges; a setting unit that sets one of the color image ranks; a pick-out unit that picks out the color pictorial data of which the color image rank matches the color image rank set in the setting unit from the color pictorial data of the plurality of the pictures stored in the pictorial data storing unit, based on the color image rank set in the setting unit and the information code of the color image rank added to the color pictorial data in the data adding unit; and a displaying unit that displays the color pictorial data which is picked out in the pick-out unit.