Patent attributes
An album creating apparatus for creating an album with an appropriate layout based on an image classification information and an image capturing time. The album creating apparatus according to an aspect of the invention includes: an image storage section that stores a plurality of images; an image classification information storage section that stores the image classification information in association with each of the images stored in the image storage section; a classification information importance calculating section for calculating the importance of the image classification information of the image stored in the image storage section; an image classification section that classifies the images stored in the image storage section based on the image classification information when the importance of the image classification information calculated by the classification information importance calculating section is higher than a predetermined reference value; a layout determining section that lays out the image classified by the image classification section into each region in an album; and a positional information inserting section for inserting into the layout region in which the image is laid out by the layout determining section, positional information indicative of the image classification information of the laid out image.
