Fujifilm Corporation

Tetsuya Sawano

Shuji Ono

Hiroyuki Funakura

There is provided an image album creating system for creating an image album by receiving high image-quality images used for creating the image album after creating an image album sample by using low image-quality images, having a low image-quality image receiving section for receiving the low image-quality images of original images whose image quality has been lowered by an orderer of the image album from an image album orderer's apparatus, an image information receiving section for receiving image information concerning the original image that can be specified from the original image or in capturing the original image and cannot be specified from the low image-quality image by correlating with each one of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section, an image selecting section for selecting the low image-quality image to be allocated to the image album out of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section by analyzing the low image-quality image and the image information and a selected image notifying section for notifying the orderer of the image album of the low image-quality image selected by the image selecting section.

Image album creating system, image album creating method and image album creating program

When an image obtained with use of a digital camera is deleted, deletion information including time and date of photography thereof is generated and recorded in a memory card. When an image obtained by photography is stored in the memory card, the deletion information is referred to, and a weight is set for the photographed image according to the number of deleted images photographed within a predetermined time before and/or after photography of the image, and added to the image.

Apparatus and method for photography, apparatus and method for setting weight, and programs therefor

A layout image is generated by laying out images in a background area according to a predetermined rule. An instruction to edit the layout image is received from a user, and the layout image is edited. Based on a result of editing according to the instruction, user preference information representing preference of the user is generated. The user preference information is fed back in subsequent layout image generation.

Apparatus and method for laying out images and program therefor

A portable printer contains a print controller that acquires first ID of a first character printed in advance on an instant film from a wireless tag embedded in the instant film; acquires second ID of a second character contained in image data to be printed on the instant film from a header of the image data. The print controller makes a judgment based on a print permission table and the IDs of the first and second characters as to whether an image based on the image data is permitted to be printed together on the instant film. The print controller then performs an output based on a result of the judgment. The print permission table is stored in a storage portion and indicates whether the first character and the second character are allowed to be printed on a common instant film.

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Asaka, Japan

Tetsuya Sawano