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US 9,851,873 B2Granted
Electronic album creating apparatus and method of producing electronic album
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorMakoto Yonaha
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Abstract
A family electronic album is created. Representative face images of a family are displayed. The representative face images are dragged and dropped onto corresponding areas among areas that identify family attributes (“father”, “mother”, etc.). Since the family attributes of the representative face images can be ascertained, the family attributes of face images that resemble these face images can be determined. Since images that include all family members and images that include some family members can be determined from among images that include face images the family attributes of which have been determined, these images are laid out in the electronic album.
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An electronic album creating apparatus comprising:
- an identification page display control device configured to control a display unit to display, on a display screen, an attribute identification page image and one or a plurality of representative face images included among a number of images that are for creating an electronic album, the attribute identification page image having an attribute identification area, which identifies a family member attribute showing a relationship with respect to a family, formed per family member attribute;
- a correlation device, responsive to a move instruction applied to a representative face image being displayed on the display screen to move the representative face onto an attribute identification area, configured to correlate the representative face image with the family member attribute identified by the attribute identification area for which the move instruction has been applied, the representative face image being extracted from a plurality of face images including a same person as representing the face of the person;
- a family member attribute detection device configured to detect, from the relationship between the representative face image and the family member attribute correlated by said correlation device, a family member attribute with regard to at least some of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album;
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- an assigning device configured to assign to an image assignment frame of each page, which will constitute the electronic album, a plurality of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album, the images being assigned based upon a plurality of the family member attributes detected by said family member attribute detection device, each of the images being associated with its own family member attribute,
- wherein the plurality of images respectively associated with a different family member attribute are displayed in the same image assignment frame, and
- one or more processors is configured to execute the identification page display control device, the correlation device, the family member attribute detection device, and the assigning device.
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A method of producing an electronic album, comprising:
- controlling a display unit to display, on a display screen, an attribute identification page image and one or a plurality of representative face images included among a number of images that are for creating an electronic album, the attribute identification page image having an attribute identification area, which identifies a family member attribute showing a relationship with respect to a family, formed per family member attribute, the representative face image being extracted from a plurality of face images including a same person as representing the face of the person;
- in response to a move instruction applied to a representative face image being displayed on the display screen to move the representative face onto an attribute identification area, correlating the representative face image with the family member attribute identified by the attribute identification area for which the move instruction has been applied;
- detecting, from the relationship between the correlated representative face image and family member attribute, a family member attribute with regard to at least some of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album;
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- assigning to an image assignment frame of each page, which will constitute the electronic album, a plurality of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album, the images being assigned based upon a plurality of the detected family member attributes, each of the images being associated with its own family member attribute, and
- wherein the plurality of images respectively associated with a different family member attribute are displayed in the same image assignment frame.
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A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer-readable program for controlling a computer of an electronic album creating apparatus to:
- display, on a display screen, an attribute identification page image and one or a plurality of representative face images included among a number of images that are for creating an electronic album, wherein the attribute identification page image has an attribute identification area, which identifies a family member attribute showing a relationship with respect to a family, formed per family member attribute, the representative face image being extracted from a plurality of face images including a same person as representing the face of the person;
- in response to a move instruction applied to a representative face image being displayed on the display screen to move the representative face onto an attribute identification area, correlate the representative face image with the family member attribute identified by the attribute identification area for which the move instruction has been applied;
- detect, from the relationship between the correlated representative face image and family member attribute, a family member attribute with regard to at least some of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album;
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- assign to an image assignment frame of each page, which will constitute the electronic album, a plurality of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album, the images being assigned based upon the detected family member attribute, each of the images being associated with its own family member attribute,
- wherein the plurality of images respectively associated with a different family member attribute are displayed in the same image assignment frame.
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An electronic album creating apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured to
- control a display unit to display, on a display screen, an attribute identification page image and one or a plurality of representative face images included among a number of images that are for creating an electronic album, the attribute identification page image having an attribute identification area, which identifies a family member attribute showing a relationship with respect to a family, formed per family member attribute, the representative face image being extracted from a plurality of face images including a same person as representing the face of the person,
- correlate, responsive to a move instruction applied to a representative face image being displayed on the display screen to move the representative face onto an attribute identification area, the representative face image with the family member attribute identified by the attribute identification area for which the move instruction has been applied, the representative face image being extracted from a plurality of face images including a same person as representing the face of the person,
- detect, from the relationship between the representative face image and the family member attribute that are correlated, a family member attribute with regard to at least some of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album, and
- assign to an image assignment frame of each page, which will constitute the electronic album, a plurality of the images among the number of images that are for creating the electronic album, the images being assigned based upon a plurality of the detected family member attributes, each of the images being associated with its own family member attribute,
- wherein the plurality of images respectively associated with a different family member attribute are displayed in the same image assignment frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.