A control method includes acquiring first layout data and second layout data generated by an album creation application in a terminal device of a user and uploaded to a server, outputting an estimated feature value based on the acquired first layout data, generating an album creation parameter based on the output estimated feature value, generating layout data based on the generated album creation parameter and an image used for the acquired second layout data, and updating the album creation parameter based on a feature value based on the generated layout data and a feature value based on the second layout data.

An album generation apparatus comprises a first acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information for identifying a combination of a user and a mobile object, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire one or more images from one or more image capturing apparatuses, a selection unit configured to select, from the one or more images, an image including the combination of the user and the mobile object by using the identification information, and a generation unit configured to generate an album by using the selected image.

Provided are an image processing device, an image processing method, and an image processing program that can decide a user image that is similar to a plurality of model images and that follows a flow of the plurality of model images. Combinations of (I2) and (P3), (I51) and (P21), (I150) and (P49), (I198) and (P79), (I201) and (P30), (I249) and (P99), (I300) and (P101), and (I301) and (P112) in which similarities between the model images and the user images are equal to or more than a first threshold value are detected. The combination of (I201) and (P30) in which a relative time difference of the imaging time is equal to or more than a second threshold value is eliminated, and the rest combinations are second combinations. From among the second combinations, a model image group and a user image group, which are a collection of similar images, are decided, and the user images similar to the model images attached on a model album are decided from the user image group. A user album is created from the decided user images.

An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program for relatively easily creating an album similar to an example album are provided. A page of an example album is displayed in a page display region, and one example image among images pasted on the page is displayed in an example image display region. An image similar to the example image is displayed in a selected image region. In a case where a decision button is clicked, the image is pasted at a position at which the example image is pasted. Similarly, an album is created by finding images similar to example images and the like pasted in an image pasting region. The album similar to the example album is created.

A method for generating a digital image collage is provided. The method includes displaying a collage template on a user interface, wherein the collage template includes populating a plurality of randomly configured apertures with digital images; assigning a weight to each of the apertures based on an area of the apertures; and selecting a new digital image to add in the layout. In response to the user input command, comparing the weights assigned to the respective apertures in the layout to identify an aperture having the greatest weight among the apertures; randomly dividing the aperture having the greatest weight into two new apertures to change the layout to a different arrangement; and populating the two new apertures and the remaining undivided apertures among the plurality of apertures in the layout with the new selected digital image and the previously selected digital images, thereby generating the digital image collage.

An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of selecting an image having common characteristics with a previously selected image, and a recording medium storing the program are provided. In a case where an image of a child and a father captured together is included in common in a first image selected from a first image group and a second image selected from a second image group, a speech balloon 200 for notifying a user to select such an image IR1 from a target image group is displayed on a display panel 21 of a smartphone. In a case where the user selects the image IR1 of the child and the father captured together, common characteristics with a previously selected image are maintained.

The present invention provides an image processing apparatus to execute a specifying step for specifying a change target for a common page contained in album data for a first subject containing the common page and an individual page for the first subject based at least on parameters related to the first subject, and specifying a change target for the common page contained in album data for a second subject containing the common page and an individual page for the second subject based at least on parameters related to the second subject.

A system and method for generating a digital image collage is provided. The method comprises displaying a user interface comprising a collage template including a layout, and a catalog segment; displaying a plurality of digital images in the catalog segment; generating a first aperture in the layout to establish a first arrangement, and populating the first aperture with the first selected digital image; changing the layout from the first arrangement to a second arrangement, wherein the second arrangement comprises randomly dividing the first aperture into a second aperture and a third aperture, populating the second aperture with the first selected digital image, and populating the third aperture with the second selected digital image thereby generating the digital image collage.

An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program for relatively easily creating an album similar to an example album are provided. A page (74) of an example album is displayed in a page display region (70), and one example image (80) among images pasted on the page (74) is displayed in an example image display region (80). An image (I1) similar to the example image (80) is displayed in a selected image region (90). In a case where a decision button (91) is clicked, the image (I1) is pasted at a position at which the example image is pasted. Similarly, an album is created by finding images similar to example images (Ir101 to Ir104) and the like pasted in an image pasting region. The album similar to the example album is created.

Provided are an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and a program capable of reducing user's labor in automatically creating a photo album. A plurality of candidate images are acquired, user selection information regarding a user-selected image selected by a user is acquired from the plurality of candidate images, and a user-selected image is obtained on the basis of an analysis result of the user-selected image. An attribute is given to the user-selected image, and a user selection standard that is a standard in selecting the user-selected image is estimated on the basis of a user selection ratio represented by a ratio of the number of selected images having the same attribute to a total number of user-selected images. An auto-selected image is selected from non-selected images that are not selected by the user in the candidate images on the basis of the user selection standard.