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Album creating apparatus, album creating method and computer readable medium

  • US 8,111,948 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2007
  • Issued: 02/07/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An album creating apparatus for creating an album by laying out an image into an album template having a page template including a layout frame which is previously arranged to fit the image therein, comprising:

  • a fold position storage section that stores the position of a fold included in a page template in a layout frame previously arranged in the page template of a page with the fold;

    a main object region judgment section that judges a region for a main object in the image;

    an image comparison section that compares, for each image, the position of the fold in the layout frame stored in the fold position storage section with the region for the main object in the image judged by the object region judgment section and judges whether the fold of the page template is overlapped with the main object in the image;

    an image selecting section that selects an image in which the fold of the page template is not overlapped with the main object of the image based on the judged result of the image comparison section when the image is arranged in the layout frame; and

    an image layout section that lays out the image selected by the image selecting section into the layout frame.

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