Electronic album editing apparatus and control method therefor
OwnerYosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi +1inventors
InventorsYosato Hitaka, Toshiyuki Noguchi, Shigeyuki Mitani
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Abstract
An arrangement of images in an electronic document having multiple pages, such as an electronic album is disclosed. First, an image/images are arranged on each of the multiple pages in accordance with a first layout. When change of the number of image/images arranged on one page among the multiple pages is detected in response to an user operation, a second layout corresponding to the changed quantity is automatically selected, and an image/images are re-arranged on the page in accordance with the second layout. Thereby, it is possible to save the user from the trouble of manually re-arranging the changed number of images.
Claims21
An electronic document editing apparatus for arranging images in an electronic document including a plurality of pages, the electronic document editing apparatus comprising:
- an image arrangement unit that arranges an image/images on the plurality of pages in accordance with first layout data;
- a detection unit that detects change of a number of image/images arranged on a page among the plurality of pages;
- a layout data selection unit that selects second layout data based on the number detected by said detection unit;
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- an image re-arrangement unit that automatically re-arranges an image/images on the page in accordance with the second layout data selected by said layout data selection unit.
A control method for an electronic document editing apparatus for arranging images in an electronic document including a plurality of pages, the control method comprising:
- arranging an image/images on the plurality of pages in accordance with first layout data;
- detecting change of the number of image/images arranged on a page among the plurality of pages;
- selecting second layout data based on the detected number of image/images;
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- automatically re-arranging an image/images on the page in accordance with the selected second layout data.
A computer program product stored on a computer-readable memory medium and embodying a computer-executable program for implementing a method for editing an electronic document, which has a plurality of pages and arranged images, the computer program comprising:
- computer readable program code means for arranging an image/images on the plurality of pages in accordance with first layout data;
- computer readable program code means for detecting change of the number of image/images arranged on a page among the multiple pages;
- computer readable program code means for selecting second layout data based on the detected number of image/images;
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- computer readable program code means for automatically re-arranging an image/images on the page in accordance with the selected second layout data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.