Patent ID: 7407288

Claim:
An eye-flow guiding level calculating system in which, based on image data constituting an image, a degree of guiding an eye-flow of the image is calculated, the system comprising: a guiding reference point detecting device to detect, based on the image data, a guiding reference point serving as a reference which guides the eye-flow from the image; and an eye-flow guiding level calculating device to calculate an eye-flow guiding level indicating the degree of guiding of the eye-flow with respect to the guiding reference point detected by the guiding reference point detecting device, wherein the eye-flow guiding level calculating device having an eye-flow guiding direction calculating device to calculate an eye-flow guiding direction, which is a direction of guiding the eye-flow, with respect to the guiding reference point detected by the guiding reference point detecting device, and an eye-flow guiding intensity calculating device to calculate an eye-flow guiding intensity, which is the intensity of guiding the eye-flow, with respect to the guiding reference point detected by the guiding reference point detecting device, in an image object, which is formed to include a vertex of an image serving as the guiding reference point or a vertex of an image in the vicinity of the guiding reference point, an auxiliary line is formed to pass through a vertex other than the vertex serving as the guiding reference point or other than the vertex in the vicinity of the guiding reference point, the eye-flow guiding intensity calculating device calculating the eye-flow guiding intensity based on a distance from one point on the virtual auxiliary line up to the guiding reference point.