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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2009
Applicant:
Yuji Akiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Yuji Akiyama, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
For automatically laying out a plurality of images, the present invention includes an image input unit which inputs an image; an analysis unit which analyzes the orientation of a principal object and the position of the principal object in the image from the image input by the image input unit; and a layout unit which places the image in accordance with the information analyzed by the analysis unit.