LAYOUT PROCESS FOR MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES

摘要

The present invention is in the field of imaging. The present invention relates more particularly to an automatic layout process, on at least one page (37), for a composite multimedia message, intended to be displayed on a terminal screen, and intended to be printed using a printer communicating with the terminal. The displayed composite multimedia message can comprise entities of image, text and sound (audio). These entities are usually formed from the contents of several initial multimedia messages. These initial multimedia messages are transformed respectively into messages (38), (39), (40), (41), (42), (43) in the composite multimedia message (37). The automatic layout is performed from an analysis of the various initial multimedia messages; an analysis that integrates especially characteristics of time, contents, or even context of the images and texts forming the initial messages. The process of the present invention is used in applications on terminals fitted with a display screen, said terminals being able to communicate with printers.