IMAGE EVALUATION APPARATUS, IMAGE EVALUATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

摘要

A plurality of images are grouped using imaging date and time in supplementary information of an image. The number of images included in each group becomes importance, and images belonging to a group of which the importance is equal to or more than a threshold are evaluation targets in an image evaluation apparatus. An image file representing an image that is an evaluation target is given to the image evaluation apparatus, and image evaluation is performed. Automatic layout of an electronic album is performed using an image of which the image evaluation is high. Since all images stored in a recording medium carried by a user are not image evaluation targets, but images considered to be important become image evaluation targets, a time according to the image evaluation is shortened and a waiting time for the user is also shortened.

主权项

1. An image evaluation apparatus comprising:
a supplementary information reading unit that reads supplementary information representing a characteristic of an image; an image evaluation process determination unit that determines whether an evaluation process of the image corresponding to the supplementary information read by the supplementary information reading unit is to be performed using the supplementary information; and an image evaluation processing unit that performs the evaluation process of the image according to the image evaluation process determination unit determining that the evaluation process is to be performed.