Album generating apparatus, album generating method and computer readable medium
First Claim
1. An album generating apparatus, comprising:
- an image storing section for storing a plurality of images;
a main image selecting section for selecting a main image that is to be a primary image in an album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a subsidiary image selecting section for selecting subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected by said main image selecting section in the album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section based on the contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section; and
a layout determining section for determining a layout of the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by said subsidiary image selecting section based on the contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by said subsidiary image selecting section.
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Abstract
There is provided an album whose contents of images is well balanced. An album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing a plurality of images, an image sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per event based on image capturing environments, a main image selecting section for selecting a main image that is to be a primary image in the album out of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per event sorted by the image sorting section, a subsidiary image selecting section for selecting subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected by the main image selecting section in the album out of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per event sorted by the image sorting section based on the contents of the main image selected by the main image selecting section and a layout determining section for determining a layout of the main image selected by the main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by the subsidiary image selecting section based on the contents of the main image selected by the main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by the subsidiary image selecting section.
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34 Claims
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1. An album generating apparatus, comprising:
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an image storing section for storing a plurality of images;
a main image selecting section for selecting a main image that is to be a primary image in an album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a subsidiary image selecting section for selecting subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected by said main image selecting section in the album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section based on the contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section; and
a layout determining section for determining a layout of the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by said subsidiary image selecting section based on the contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by said subsidiary image selecting section. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An album generating method, comprising:
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an image storing step of storing a plurality of images;
a main image selecting step of selecting a main image that is to be a primary image in an album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing step;
a subsidiary image selecting step of selecting subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected in said main image selecting step in the album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing step based on the contents of the main image selected in said main image selecting step; and
a layout determining step of determining a layout of the main image selected in said main image selecting step and the subsidiary images selected in said subsidiary image selecting step based on the contents of the main image selected in said main image selecting step and the subsidiary images selected in said subsidiary image selecting step.
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21. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program for an album generating apparatus for generating an album, causing said album generating apparatus to function as:
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an image storing section for storing a plurality of images;
a main image selecting section for selecting a main image that is to be a primary image in an album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a subsidiary image selecting section for selecting subsidiary images that are to be images subsidiary to the main image selected by said main image selecting section in the album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section based on the contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section; and
a layout determining section for determining a layout of the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by said subsidiary image selecting section based on the contents of the main image selected by said main image selecting section and the subsidiary images selected by said subsidiary image selecting section.
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22. An album generating apparatus, comprising:
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an image storing section for storing a plurality of images;
a main person specifying section for specifying an image of a main person in the album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a main person image sampling section for sampling a plurality of images of the main person which are subject images of the main person out of subject images contained in the plurality of images stored in said image storing section by comparing the image of the main person specified by said main person specifying section with the subject images contained in the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a posterization image selecting section for selecting an image suitable for a posterization process out of the plurality of images of the main person sampled by said main person image sampling section;
a posterization image generating section for generating a posterization image to be used in the album by applying the posterization process to the image selected by said posterization image selecting section; and
an album generating section for generating the album containing the image of the main person by using the posterization image generated by said posterization image generating section. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. An album generating method, comprising:
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an image storing step of storing a plurality of images;
a main person specifying step of specifying an image of a main person in the album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing step;
a main person image sampling step of sampling a plurality of images of the main person which are subject images of the main person out of subject images contained in the plurality of images stored in said image storing step by comparing the image of the main person specified in said main person specifying step with the subject images contained in the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a posterization image selecting step of selecting an image suitable for a posterization process out of the plurality of images of the main person sampled in said main person image sampling step;
a posterization image generating step of generating a posterization image to be used in the album by applying the posterization process to the image selected in said posterization image selecting step; and
an album generating step of generating the album containing the image of the main person by using the posterization image generated in said posterization image generating step.
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34. A computer readable medium storing thereon a program for an album generating apparatus for generating an album, for causing said album generating apparatus to function as:
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an image storing section for storing a plurality of images;
a main person specifying section for specifying an image of a main person in the album out of the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a main person image sampling section for sampling a plurality of images of the main person which are subject images of the main person out of subject images contained in the plurality of images stored in said image storing section by comparing the image of the main person specified by said main person specifying section with the subject images contained in the plurality of images stored in said image storing section;
a posterization image selecting section for selecting an image suitable for a posterization process out of the plurality of images of the main person sampled by said main person image sampling section;
a posterization image generating section for generating a posterization image to be used in the album by applying the posterization process to the image selected by said posterization image selecting section; and
an album generating section for generating the album containing the image of the main person by using the posterization image generated by said posterization image generating section.
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