Image capturing apparatus, image capturing method, album creating apparatus, album creating method, album creating system and computer readable medium
First Claim
1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising:
- an image capturing section for capturing an image;
a person determining section connected to the image capturing section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; and
an image storage section connected to the person determining section for storing personal identification information of a person included in the image captured by the image capturing section in association with the image captured thereby in a form suitable for creating an album.
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Abstract
An image capturing apparatus includes: an image capturing section for capturing an image; a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted when the image determining section determines that the image includes the person; a personal identification information input section for causing the user to input personal identification information indicative of the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section by a predetermined timing after the input notification section notifies the user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted; and an image storage section for storing the personal identification information inputted by the personal identification information input section in association with the image captured by the image capturing section when the personal identification information input section inputs the personal identification information.
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34 Claims
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1. An image capturing apparatus, comprising:
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an image capturing section for capturing an image;
a person determining section connected to the image capturing section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; and
an image storage section connected to the person determining section for storing personal identification information of a person included in the image captured by the image capturing section in association with the image captured thereby in a form suitable for creating an album. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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7. An image capturing method, comprising:
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capturing an image;
determining whether the image captured in the image capturing step includes any person; and
storing personal identification information of a person included in the image captured in the image capturing step in association with the image captured thereby in a form suitable for creating an album. - View Dependent Claims (8, 33)
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9. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program for an image capturing apparatus for capturing an image, the program operating the image capturing apparatus to function as:
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an image capturing section for capturing an image;
a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person; and
an image storage section for storing personal identification information of a person included in the image captured by the image capturing section in association with the image captured thereby in a form suitable for creating an album. - View Dependent Claims (10, 34)
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11. An album creating apparatus comprising:
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an image storage section for storing personal identification information indicative of a person included in an image in association with the image;
a related personal information storage section for storing related personal information associated with the personal identification information on the persons closely related to each other;
a related personal information extraction section for extracting the personal identification information on a person closely related to a designated person who is designated by a user based on the related personal information stored in the related personal information storage section;
an image selecting section for selecting the image stored in the image storage section in association with the personal identification information extracted by the related personal information extraction section; and
an album creating section for creating an album including the image selected by the image selecting section. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. An album creating method comprising:
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storing personal identification information indicative of a person included in an image in association with the image;
storing related personal information associated with the personal identification information on persons closely related to each other;
extracting the personal identification information on a person closely related to a designated person who is designated by a user based on the related personal identification information stored in the related personal information storing step;
extracting the image stored in the image storing step in association with the personal identification information extracted in the related personal information extracting step; and
generating an album including the image extracted in the image extracting step.
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26. A program for an album creating apparatus for creating an album, the program operates the album creating apparatus to function as:
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an image storage section for storing personal identification information indicative of a person included in an image in association with the image;
a related personal information storage section for storing related personal information associated with the personal identification information on the persons closely related to each other;
a related personal information extraction section for extracting the personal identification information on a person closely related to a designated person who is designated by a user based on the related personal information stored in the related personal information storage section;
an image selecting section for selecting the image stored in the image storage section in association with the personal identification information extracted by the related personal information extraction section; and
an album creating section for creating an album including the image selected by the image selecting section.
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27. An album creating system comprising:
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an image capturing section for capturing an image;
a person determining section for determining whether the image captured by the image capturing section includes any person;
an input notification section for notifying a user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted when the person determining section determines that the image includes any person;
a personal identification information input section for causing the user to input personal identification information indicative of the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section by a predetermined timing after the input notification section notifies the user that the person included in the image captured by the image capturing section should be inputted;
an image storage section for storing the personal identification information inputted by the personal identification information input section in association with the image captured by the image capturing section when the personal identification information input section inputs the personal identification information;
a related personal information storage section for storing related personal information associated with the personal identification information on the persons closely related to each other;
a related personal information extraction section for extracting the personal identification information on a person closely related to a designated person who is designated by the user based on the related personal information stored in the related personal information storage section;
an image selecting section for selecting the image stored in the image storage section in association with the personal identification information extracted by the related personal information extraction section; and
an album generating section for generating an album including the image selected by the image selecting section.
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