Patent ID: 7697039

Claim:
An electronic image album creating system for editing a second electronic image album with reference to a first electronic image album comprising: a first image storing module storing a plurality of images in the first electronic image album; a second image storing module storing a plurality of images in the second electronic image album; a feature extracting module for extracting a feature amount of an object included in each of the plurality of images stored in said second image storing module; an image selecting module for selecting an image out of the plurality of images stored in said first image storing module on the basis of the feature amount extracted by said feature extracting module, the selected image including an object having a feature amount the similarity of which to that of the object included in the image stored in said second image storing module is higher than a predetermined reference value; and an image transmitting module for retrieving the image selected by said image selecting module from said first image storing module and storing the image in said second image storing module as a result of the transmission of the image retrieved from said first image storing module to said second image storing module.