Patent 7466347 was granted and assigned to RICOH COMPANY,LTD. on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A template in HTML format is formed in a PC or the like, and this is taken in a digital camera device, and a single or a plurality of images are selected in the digital camera so as to carry out a process with templates being specified; thus, an image associating (pasting) process is executed in accordance with independent tags. At this time, only the sections corresponding to the independent tags are converted with the other sections being left as they are. This process makes it possible to describe those having a complex layout, and consequently to easily add a template.