Patent Document ID: 20090116752
Application ID: 12090621
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An album creating apparatus for creating an album in which a plurality of images are laid out, comprising: a classification method storage section for storing a classification method of classifying images into a plurality of groups in association with a kind of album; an image input section for inputting the images; a kind of album determining section for determining the kind of album created by using the images inputted by the image input section; an image classification section for classifying the images inputted by the image input section into a plurality of groups in association with the kind of album determined by a kind of album determining section based on the classification method stored in the classification method storage section; a template storage section for storing a template in which image layout frames with which the groups into which the images are classified by the image classification section are classified are arranged; and an album creating section for laying out in an image layout frame arranged in the template stored in the template storage section the image classified into the group associated with the image layout frame to create an album.