ELECTRONIC ALBUM APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF SAME

摘要

An electronic album is created taking into consideration the intentions of the user regarding electronic album creation. Face images are extracted from among a number of images for an electronic album and the face images are displayed on a display screen. A face image of an important person is dragged and dropped onto an important image setting area, and the face image of a person not required to be included in the electronic album is dragged and dropped onto an excluded image setting area. An electronic album in line with user intentions is created so as to increase the proportion of images of an important person and exclude images of unwanted persons.

主权项

1. An electronic album apparatus comprising:
a reading device for reading a number of images for electronic album creation; an electronic album image display control device for controlling a display device so as to display on a display screen at least some of the images for electronic album creation read by said reading device; an important image setting device responsive to a designation from a user for setting important images from among the images being displayed on the display screen under the control of said electronic album image display control device; and an electronic album display control device for controlling the display device so as to display on the display screen an electronic album created using the number of images for electronic album creation in such a manner that a proportion of important images, which have been set by said important image setting device, included in the electronic album is larger than a proportion of included images other than the important images.