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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Kawai, Kawasaki, JP;
Yusuke Hashii, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoshi Umeda, Kawasaki, JP;
Hiroyasu Kunieda, Yokohama, JP;
Hiroyuki Sakai, Chigasaki, JP;
Naoki Sumi, Kawasaki, JP;
Tohru Ikeda, Yokohama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one image group including at least one image; a creating unit configured to create a layout candidate by laying out images included in an image group that has been acquired by the acquisition unit; an evaluating unit configured to evaluate the layout candidate created by the creating unit, based on individual evaluation of each of the images in accordance with a feature of a subject in the images that have been laid out in layouts; and an output unit configured to output the layout candidate created by the creating unit, at a predetermined output size. The feature of the subject in the images includes a size of the subject in the image identified by an output size of the layout candidate output by the output unit.