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Image editing system, image management apparatus, and image editing program

  • US 8,325,398 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2006
  • Issued: 12/04/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2005
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An album editing apparatus to control a giving of a same content warning regarding image files within an album and displayed images arranged on pages of the album, wherein the displayed images correspond to the image files, the album editing apparatus comprising:

  • a storage unit configured to store an album having a plurality of image files, where each image file is configured to include information concerning at least one of an original image and a thumbnail image of that original image;

    an editing unit configured to operate an image editing processing to edit a displayed image arranged on a page of an album, wherein the displayed image is based on an original image;

    a warning management table storing size threshold values, wherein the size threshold values include a permissible overlapping size ratio;

    a computing unit configured, after a size of a first image from a first image file of a first album is edited and changed to produce an edited first image and the image editing processing has been terminated, to compute an actual overlapping size ratio that accounts for a change in image size resulting from removal of outer parts of an image;

    a determining unit configured to determine whether the actual overlapping size ratio is smaller than the permissible overlapping size ratio; and

    a warning unit configured, in response to the actual overlapping size ratio being smaller than the permissible overlapping size ratio, to refrain from giving a same content warning, and, in response to the actual overlapping size ratio being larger than the permissible overlapping size ratio, to give a same content warning that is configured to warn a user that same images are displayed in plural image areas within the album,wherein, prior to determining whether the actual overlapping size ratio is smaller than the permissible overlapping size ratio, the determining unit is configured to determine whether one of a first image file name and first image binary data of the first image file matches, one of a second image file name and second image binary data of the second image file and, in response to the first image file name and the second image file name not matching or the first image binary data and the second image binary data not matching, the determining unit does not determine whether the actual overlapping size ratio is smaller than the permissible overlapping size ratio and the warning unit does not give a same content warning and, in response to the first image file name and the second image file name matching or the first image binary data and the second image binary data matching the determining unit then determines whether the actual overlapping size ratio is smaller than the permissible overlapping size ratio.

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