Abstract: An album creating apparatus for automatically designing image frames depending on the kind of subjects is provided. The album creating apparatus includes: an image storage section for storing a plurality of images; an image layout section for laying out the images stored in the image storage section into an album; an amount of designing determining section for determining the amount of designing in the album depending on the kind of object included in the image laid out in the album by the image layout section; and a designing section for designing such that the larger the amount of designing determined by the amount of designing determining section, the more the designing section transforms from a rectangle the frame shape of the image laid out in the album by the image layout section.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of making a microstructures with a flexible mold, microstructure precursor compositions and articles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of making a flexible mold from a polymerizable resin composition, the flexible mold, the polymerizable resin composition, as well as methods of using the flexible mold.

Abstract: An album provision system is provided to prevent an album from being copied before it has not been charged for creating the album when the album is provided to a user. The album provision system includes: an image acquiring section for acquiring an image; an album creating section for creating an album by the acquired image; a film applying section for applying a viewing protection film to prevent the image from being viewed on the image laid out in the album; a film presence determining section for determining whether the viewing protection film is still applied on the image laid out in the album returned from the user when the album on which the viewing protection film is applied is provided to the user and then the album is returned from the user; and a charging section for charging the user when the film presence determining section determines that the viewing protection film is not applied on the image.

Abstract: An electronic album editing system for editing an electronic album in consideration of categories into which images are classifies is provided.

Abstract: An image output apparatus according to the present invention includes: a moving image constituting image extracting section that extracts a moving-image constituting image from a moving image having a plurality of moving-image constituting images; a moving direction specifying section that specifies a moving direction, in the moving image, of an object included in the moving-image constituting image extracted from the moving image constituting image extracting section based on the change of position of the object in the plurality of continued moving-image constituting images; an image layout section that lays out the moving-image constituting image extracted from the moving image constituting image extracting section in an output area based on the moving direction of object specified by the moving direction specifying section; and an image outputting section that outputs the moving-image constituting image laid-out by the image layout section on the output area.

Abstract: An album with the color arrangement harmonized with images is provided. An album creating apparatus for creating an album including a plurality of images includes: a color extraction section for extracting a plurality of colors included in the plurality of images; an appearance frequency of color calculating section for calculating the appearance frequency of the plurality of colors extracted by the color extraction section; a characteristic color determining section for determining characteristic colors which are colors characteristic of the plurality of images based on the appearance frequency of the plurality of colors calculated by the appearance frequency of color calculating section; and a template color selecting section for selecting colors for template which are used for a template of the album including the plurality of images based on the characteristic colors determined by the characteristic color determining section.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a titling apparatus which can give a title proper for a user to an image.

Abstract: An output apparatus for easily outputting sounds associated with the captured images without getting bored users is provided. The image output apparatus includes: an image storage section for storing a plurality of captured images; an image output section for outputting the images stored in the image storage section; an image output control section for controlling the image output section to output the images stored in the image storage section; a sound storage section for storing a plurality of recorded sounds, a sound output section for outputting the sounds stored in the sound storage section; and a sound output control section, when the image output section outputs the image, for selecting a first sound among the plurality of sounds stored in the sound storage section and causing the sound output section to output the same, and when the image output section outputs the same image again, for selecting a second sound different from the first sound and causing the sound output section to output the same.

Abstract: To provide the possible largest number of representative images of the image data recorded on the recording medium on the surface of a recording medium which is limited in size. When recording image data recorded on two DVD-Rs on a new DVD-R, a lenticular image synthesis is carried out on the representative images D1 and D2 provided on the surface of the original DVD-Rs and a representative image D3 of the new DVD-R to generate one synthetic representative image D10 and the synthetic representative image D10 is printed on the surface of the new DVD-R.

Abstract: An information intermediary apparatus for communicating through a communication network with an information management apparatus having user information stored therein, the information intermediary apparatus, which includes: a first communication section for establishing communication through the communication network with the information management apparatus; a second communication section for communicating with a portable communication apparatus having identification information for identifying a user; an identification information-obtaining section, connected with said second communication section, for obtaining said identification information from said portable communication apparatus through said second communication section; user information input unit, connected with said first communication section, for inputting user information for the user of the portable communication apparatus; and a data-identifying section, connected with said identification information-obtaining section and said user informati

Abstract: An information intermediary apparatus for communicating through a communication network with an information management apparatus having user information stored therein, the information intermediary apparatus, which includes: a first communication section for establishing communication through the communication network with the information management apparatus; a second communication section for communicating with a portable communication apparatus having identification information for identifying a user; an identification information-obtaining section, connected with said second communication section, for obtaining said identification information from said portable communication apparatus through said second communication section; a user information input unit, connected with said first communication section, for inputting user information for the user of the portable communication apparatus; and a data-identifying section, connected with said identification information-obtaining section and said user informa

Abstract: A read-out image is acquired by covering an image storage sheet, which contains a color image, with an image storage sheet pushing surface of a platen cover and reading out an image of a region on the image storage sheet pushing surface of the platen cover, the region on the image storage sheet pushing surface containing the image storage sheet. A region corresponding to the image storage sheet in the read-out image is then recognized. The image storage sheet pushing surface of the platen cover has a color other than colors which are ordinarily contained in image storage sheets. The region corresponding to the image storage sheet is recognized by judging that a pixel in the read-out image, which pixel represents a color different from the color of the image storage sheet pushing surface of the platen cover, is a pixel falling within the region corresponding to the image storage sheet.

Abstract: Illegal use of a playlist can be prevented. A laboratory generates a playlist and encodes the playlist with a public key. The encoded playlist is recorded in a DVD. When a user carries out reproduction using the playlist on a personal computer, the personal computer compares token information thereof and token information included in an access ticket issued by an access ticket issuing center according to the token information of the personal computer. The personal computer carries out the reproduction by decoding the playlist with the private key in the access ticket only in the case where the token information thereof agrees with the token information in the access ticket.

Abstract: Various kinds of information including information such as image data can be recorded in a recording medium without substantially lowering production efficiency. A DVD-R storing image data, meta-data of the image data, and DVD-Video files has a dual layer structure comprising a first recording layer and a second recording layer. The first recording layer comprises an organic dye layer and the second recording layer has a phase-change alloy layer. The image data are recorded in the first recording layer while the meta-data and the DVD-Video files that can be generated again are recorded in the second recording layer.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus for correcting an image of a subject, includes: a first illuminated image acquisition unit for acquiring the first reference member image that is an image a reference member having a plurality of normal directions taken under the first illumination condition; the second illuminated image acquisition unit for acquiring the second reference member image and a subject image that are an image of the reference member and an image of the subject, respectively, taken under the second illumination condition; a shape acquisition unit for acquiring three-dimensional shapes of the reference member and the subject; a normal direction determination unit for determining a normal direction of each region of the first reference member image, the second reference member image and the subject image based on the three-dimensional shapes of the reference member and the subject; a difference calculation unit for calculating a color difference in each region between the first and second reference memb

Abstract: Images included in an electronic album are displayed as a slide show with the configuration and sequence different from the configuration and sequence on the video stream that has been created already. There is provided an electronic-album displaying system that displays an electronic album including a plurality of images. The electronic-album displaying system includes a video stream storing unit operable to store a video stream including the plurality of images as frame images, a playback unitoperable to play the video stream, a remote controller operable to remotely control the playback unit byway of radio communication, and a display unit operable to display the video stream played by the playback unit, in which the remote controller includes a schedule storing unit that stores a schedule by which at least some images among the plurality of images are played, and a remote controlling unit that remotely controls the playback unit in order to play each of at least some images according to the schedule.

Abstract: To provide a flexible mold (10) useful for manufacturing a PDP rib having a lattice pattern and other microstructures, and capable of highly precisely manufacturing the microstructures without involving defects such as occurrence of bubbles and pattern deformation. A flexible mold (10) comprises a base layer (2) made of a first curable material having a viscosity of 3,000 to 100,000 cps at 10 to 80° C. and a coating layer (3) coating a surface of the base layer (2) and made of a second curable material having a viscosity of 200 cps or below at 10 to 80° C.

Abstract: From which recording medium image data sets have been obtained is enabled to be known, when image data sets are read out of recording media and recorded into a different recording medium. When recording image data sets, which have been read out of a recording medium, into a DVD-R, a unique ID of the DVD-R is added to the file names of the image data sets. When the image data sets are read out from the DVD-R to generate a new DVD-R, a unique ID of the new DVD-R is added to the file names of the image data sets.

Abstract: Color reproducibility of a proof print agrees with color reproducibility of a print generated at a laboratory. Image data obtained by a user with a digital camera are printed by a printer to generate a proof print. The proof print is read by reading means in a laboratory and scanned image data are obtained. The scanned image data are converted into a Lab color space by first conversion means, and converted scanned image data are generated. A relationship between data values of original image data and the converted scanned image data is calculated as a look-up table by calculation means. Second conversion means converts the original image data based on the look-up table, and obtains converted original image data. Third conversion means converts the converted original image data into print image data, and printing means generates a print by printing the print image data.