US 7,586,524 B2
Apparatus, method, and program for editing images
Takashi Tsue, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Koichi Yamada, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); and Akira Yoda, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Assigned to FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 29, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/998,145.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-396851 (JP), filed on Nov. 27, 2003; and application No. 2004-337601 (JP), filed on Nov. 22, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0185202 A1, Aug. 25, 2005
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 5/76 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 348—231.2  [382/165] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image editing apparatus, comprising:
a display unit for displaying various types of information;
an input unit for receiving input for a template comprising a plurality of pages and having a plurality of image insertion areas for inserting information that indicates a predetermined event including a plurality of scenes, a plurality of images of said predetermined event, and images corresponding to respective scenes of said plurality of scenes included in said predetermined event;
an image group generating unit for generating image groups by classifying said plurality of images into respective scenes of said plurality of scenes included in said predetermined event;
a scene selecting unit for receiving a selection of desired scene from among said plurality of scenes;
an image display control unit for generating a catalog of images classified in an image group that corresponds to said selected scene, and for displaying said catalog on said display unit;
a template display control unit for displaying a page of said template having an image insertion area for inserting an image that corresponds to said selected scene on said display unit; and
an image selecting unit for receiving a selection of image to be inserted into said image insertion area from said catalog;
wherein said scene selecting unit displays a plurality of scene buttons, each representing each of said plurality of scenes, on the display unit, and receives a selection of scene button from among said plurality of scene buttons displayed on said display unit.