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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2020
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present disclosure is to create an album having both the contents common to all persons and the contents in accordance with each individual. One embodiment of the present disclosure is an apparatus that creates an album for each main object, which consists of a plurality of double-page spreads including a common double-page spread used in common in at least two albums and an individual double-page spread corresponding to the main object and has a calculation unit configured to calculate a candidate number of individual double-page spreads that is set for all the albums for each album and a determination unit configured to determine the minimum candidate among the candidates calculated by the calculation unit as the number of individual double-page spreads for all the albums.