Digital photo album producing apparatus

• US 20060176781A1
• Filed: 02/04/2005
• Published: 08/10/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Konica Minolta Technology USA Inc (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Konica Minolta Technology USA Inc (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: King, Chao, Christ, John R.
• Application Number:
  US11/049,892
• Publication Number:
  US 20060176781A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 369/30.10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/4393 Multimedia presentations, e.g. slide shows, multimedia albums

Abstract

The present application relates to a digital photo album producing apparatus which can produce the digital photo album file so that reproducing of the image and the reproducing of the background music ends at the same time.

Claims

1. A digital photo album producing apparatus, comprising:

a reading section which reads image data including at least one of still image data and movie data from an image data recording medium,

an image data storing section which stores image data read by the reading section,

a data storing section which stores at least one background music data,

a selecting section by which an user selects background music based on the background music data stored in the data storing section,

a calculating section which calculates temporal total reproducing time of the image data and compares the temporal total reproducing time of the image data with reproducing time of the background music data selected by the selecting section,

a processing section which produces a digital photo album file based on the image data stored in the image data storing section and the background music data selected by the selecting section,

a recoding section which records the digital photo album file produced by the processing section onto a removable digital information recording medium, and

wherein if the calculating section judges that the temporal total reproducing time of the image data is longer than the reproducing time of the background music data, the processing section produces the digital photo album file so that the background music data is reproduced repeatedly until the reproducing of the image data ends and

if the calculating section judges that the temporal total reproducing time of the image data is shorter than reproducing time of the background music data, the processing section produces the digital photo album file so that the image data is reproduced repeatedly until the reproducing of the background music data ends.

2. The digital photo album producing apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data storing section stores minimum time data and maximum time data for reproducing time of each still image data and,

wherein the calculating section calculates temporal reproducing time of each still image data based on the reproducing time of the background music, the number of the still image data and the reproducing time of the movie data, and compare the temporal reproducing time of each still image data with the time of the maximum time data and the time of the minimum time data, and

wherein if the calculating section judges that the temporal reproducing time is less than the time of the minimum time data stored in the data storing section, the time of the minimum time data is set as the reproducing time of each still image data, and

wherein if the calculating section judges that the temporal reproducing time is more than the time of the maximum time data stored in the data storing section, the time of the maximum time data is set as the reproducing time of each still image data, and

wherein if the calculating section judges that the temporal reproducing time is not more than the time of the maximum time data and not less than the time of the minimum time data, the temporal reproducing time is set as the reproducing time of each still image data.

3. The digital photo album producing apparatus of claim 1, wherein if the calculating section judges that the temporal total reproducing time of the image data is longer than the reproducing time of the background music data, the processing section produces the digital photo album file so that the background music data is reproduced repeatedly until the reproducing of the image data ends, and the background music is faded out when the reproducing of the image data ends.

4. A digital photo album producing apparatus, comprising:

means for reading image data including at least one of still image data and movie data from an image data recording medium,

means for storing image data read by the reading means and at least one background music data,

means for inputting background music selection among the background music data stored in the storing means,

means for calculating temporal total reproducing time of the image data and comparing the temporal total reproducing time of the image data with reproducing time of the background music data selected by the selecting means,

means for producing a digital photo album file based on the image data stored in the storing means and the background music data selected by the selecting means,

means for recording the digital photo album file produced by the producing means onto a removable digital information recording medium, and

wherein if the calculating means judges that the temporal total reproducing time of the image data is longer than the reproducing time of the background music data, the processing means produces the digital photo album file so that the background music data is reproduced repeatedly until the reproducing of the image data ends and

if the calculating means judges that the temporal total reproducing time of the image data is shorter than reproducing time of the background music data, the producing means produces the digital photo album file so that the image data is reproduced repeatedly until the reproducing of the background music data ends.