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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2006
Ayumu Isomura, Tokyo, JP;
Shuji Ono, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kanagawa, JP;
Kimiko Tachikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Zetsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuyo Nenoki, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Matsushita, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Funakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideaki Yoshihara, Tokyo, JP;
Ayumu Isomura, Tokyo, JP;
Shuji Ono, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuhiko Kaneko, Kanagawa, JP;
Kimiko Tachikawa, Tokyo, JP;
Shinsuke Zetsu, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuyo Nenoki, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiro Matsushita, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Funakura, Kanagawa, JP;
Hideaki Yoshihara, Tokyo, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an apparatus and a method for generating an album while adequately allocating images per page in accordance to image capturing-times. The album creating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images correlating with image capturing-times of the images, a distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section for calculating a distribution of image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section based on the image capturing-times of the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the distribution of image capturing-times calculated by the distribution-of-image-capturing-time calculating section and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted by the image sorting section per page to each page of the album.