Album creating apparatus, album creating method and program

• US 20060244765A1
• Filed: 04/26/2006
• Published: 11/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co Limited (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Isomura, Ayumu, Ono, Shuji, Yoda, Akira
• Granted Patent: US 7,908,547 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/635
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

An album creating apparatus for automatically designing image frames depending on the kind of subjects is provided. The album creating apparatus includes: an image storage section for storing a plurality of images; an image layout section for laying out the images stored in the image storage section into an album; an amount of designing determining section for determining the amount of designing in the album depending on the kind of object included in the image laid out in the album by the image layout section; and a designing section for designing such that the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section transforms from a rectangle the frame shape of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section.

Claims

1. An album creating apparatus comprising:

an image storage section for storing a plurality of images;

an image layout section for laying out the images stored in the image storage section into an album;

an amount of designing determining section for determining the amount of designing in the album depending on the kind of object included in the image laid out by the image layout section; and

a designing section for designing a frame shape of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section in association with the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section.

2. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section transforms from a rectangle the frame shape of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section.

3. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

a moving image information storage section for storing at least one of the moving image information before the image is captured and the moving image after the image is captured in association with each of the plurality of images stored in the image storage section;

an object movement calculating section for calculating the movement of an object included in the image laid out in the album by the image layout section based on the moving image information stored in the moving image storage section, wherein

the amount of designing determining section determines the amount of designing according to the movement of the object calculated by the object movement calculating section.

4. The album creating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the amount of designing determining section determines that the amount of designing in the album is larger when the frequency of the movement of the object calculated by the object movement calculating section is higher.

5. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a sound storage section for storing the sound captured with the plurality of images stored in the image storage section in association with each of the images, wherein the amount of designing determining section determines the amount of designing depending the kind of the object included in the image laid out in the album by the image layout section based on the sound stored in the sound storage section.

6. The album creating apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the amount of designing determining section determines that the amount of designing is larger when the frequency of the sound stored in the sound storage section is higher.

7. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

an amount of designing storage section for storing the amount of designing in association with the kind of object; and

an object identifying section for identifying the kind of the object included in the image laid out in the album by the image layout section, wherein

the amount of designing determining section selects the amount of designing stored in the amount of designing storage section in association with the kind of the object identified by the object identifying section, and

the designing section designs the frame shape of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section in association with the amount of designing selected by the amount of designing determining section.

8. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising:

an album template storage section for storing a plurality of album templates in which the layout of a plurality of images in the album is defined; and

an album template section for selecting one album template among the plurality of album templates stored in the album template storage section, wherein the image layout section lays out the images stored in the image storage section according to the album template selected by the album template selecting section, and

the designing section designs the frame shape of the images laid out in the album template by the image layout section in association with the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section.

9. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising an image quality judgment section for judging the image quality of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section, wherein

the amount of designing determining section determines that the amount of designing is larger when the image quality calculated by the image quality judgment section is lower.

10. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising a text acquiring section for acquiring a text used for the album, wherein

the amount of album determining section determines the amount of album depending on the content of the text acquired by the text acquiring section.

11. The album creating apparatus according to claim 10 further comprising an amount of designing storage section for storing the amount of designing in association with the content of the album, wherein

the amount of designing determining section selects the amount of designing stored in the amount of designing storage section in association with the content of the text acquired by the text acquiring section.

12. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section increases the variation of the area of the plurality of image frames laid out in the album by the image layout section.

13. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the is larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section increases the variation of the slope of the plurality of image frames laid out in the album by the image layout section

14. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section increases the amount of change of the color of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section.

15. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section selects decorated characters as the text laid out in the album.

16. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1 creates album data to continuously indicate a plurality of images, wherein

the image layout section lays out such that the same image is displayed on the different positions at the continuous display timings, and

the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section increases the acceleration regarding the position of the same image laid out by the image layout section in order to display on the different positions at the continuous display timings.

17. The album creating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the amount of designing determining section calculates an amount of designing vector composed of the amount of designing for each kind of the plurality of designing in each of the plurality of continuous pages in the album and determines such that the amount of change in the direction of the amount of designing vector calculated in the continuous pages is less than the predetermined amount of change.

18. An album creating method comprising:

storing a plurality of images;

laying out the images stored in the image storing step into an album;

determining the amount of designing in the album depending on the kind of object included in the image laid out in the image laying out step; and

designing a frame shape of the image laid out in the album in the laying out step in association with the amount of designing determined in the amount of designing determining step.

19. A program for an album creating apparatus for creating an album, the program operates the album creating apparatus to function as:

an image storage section for storing a plurality of images;

an image layout section for laying out the images stored in the image storage section into an album;

an amount of designing determining section for determining the amount of designing in the album depending on the kind of object included in the image laid out by the image layout section; and

a designing section for designing a frame shape of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section in association with the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section.

20. An album creating apparatus comprising:

an image storage section for storing a plurality of images;

an image layout section for laying out the images stored in the image storage section into an album;

an image quality judgment section for judging the quality of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section;

an amount of designing determining section for determining that the amount of designing is larger when the image quality calculated by the image quality judgment section is lower; and

a designing section for designing the image laid out in the album by the image layout section in association with the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section.

21. An album creating method comprising:

storing a plurality of images;

laying out the images stored in the image storing step into an album;

judging the quality of the image laid out in the album in the image laying out step;

determining that the amount of designing is larger when the image quality calculated in the image quality judging step is lower; and

designing the image laid out in the album in the image laying out step in association with the amount of designing determined in the amount of designing determining step.

22. A program for an album creating apparatus for creating an album, the program operates the album creating apparatus to function as:

an image storage section for storing a plurality of images;

an image layout section for laying out the images stored in the image storage section into an album;

an image quality judgment section for judging the quality of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section;

an amount of designing determining section for determining that the amount of designing is larger when the image quality calculated by the image quality judgment section is lower; and

a designing section for designing the image laid out in the album by the image layout section in association with the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section.