US 7,545,521 B2
Image processing apparatus and method utilized to generate cover image
Takashi Hanamoto, Kanagawa (Japan); and Masanori Abe, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on May 02, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/136,337.
Claims priority of application No. 2001-143662 (JP), filed on May 14, 2001; and application No. 2002-100468 (JP), filed on Apr. 02, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2002/0167683 A1, Nov. 14, 2002
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.1  [358/1.18] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of generating a cover image to be attached to an output object that includes digital images, comprising the steps of:
specifying a folder which contains digital images to be outputted as the output object;
reading in information for the specified folder; and
generating the cover image onto which the information for the specified folder is added as a title.