Titling apparatus, a titling method, and a machine readable medium storing thereon a computer program for titling

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. A titling apparatus for giving a title to a captured image includes a captured image storing unit for storing a captured image group include a plurality of captured images, an image capturing time storing unit for storing image capturing time when each of the plurality of captured images stored by the captured image storing unit is captured, an image capturing period judging unit for judging an image capturing period and an image capturing season including the image capturing time stored by the image capturing time storing unit, a period terminology storing unit for storing a plurality of terms respectively related to a plurality of periods with different time widths each of which includes a period and a season, the term corresponding to the period and the season, and a titling unit for giving a title to the captured image group stored by the captured image storing unit by using a term related to a period of a wider time width out of the plurality of terms stored by the period terminology storing unit as a difference between the image capturing time included in the image capturing period and the image capturing season judged by the image capturing period judging unit and the output time acquired by the output time acquiring unit is longer.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A computer-implemented method comprising:
 identifying, by a computing system, a first entity viewing an image and a second entity captured in the image;   determining, by the computing system, a relationship between the first entity and the second entity; and   generating, by the computing system, a reference associated with the image, the reference comprising one or more terms associated with the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.   
     
     
         2 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the determining a relationship comprises:
 determining the relationship between the first entity and the second entity from a perspective of the first entity.   
     
     
         3 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 presenting the image and the reference for display to the first entity.   
     
     
         4 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 maintaining information associated with the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.   
     
     
         5 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 maintaining an identifier associated with the first entity; and   maintaining an identifier associated with the second entity.   
     
     
         6 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the first entity is the second entity and the one or more terms comprises a first entity noun. 
     
     
         7 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 6 , wherein the first entity noun is “I”. 
     
     
         8 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , further comprising:
 identifying a third entity captured in the image, wherein the first entity is the third entity and the one or more terms includes a term “with”.   
     
     
         9 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the reference further comprises a term associated with at least one of a time period or a geographic region. 
     
     
         10 . The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein the identifying a first entity viewing an image and a second entity captured in the image comprises:
 extracting a feature of a face of the second entity from the image for comparison with the feature extracted from at least one maintained image associated with an entity identification.   
     
     
         11 . A system comprising:
 at least one processor; and   a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to perform:
 identifying a first entity viewing an image and a second entity captured in the image; 
 determining a relationship between the first entity and the second entity; and 
 generating a reference associated with the image, the reference comprising one or more terms associated with the relationship between the first entity and the second entity. 
   
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 11 , wherein the determining a relationship comprises:
 determining the relationship between the first entity and the second entity from a perspective of the first entity.   
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 presenting the image and the reference for display to the first entity.   
     
     
         14 . The system of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 maintaining information associated with the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.   
     
     
         15 . The system of  claim 11 , further comprising:
 maintaining an identifier associated with the first entity; and   maintaining an identifier associated with the second entity.   
     
     
         16 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a computing system, cause the computing system to perform:
 identifying a first entity viewing an image and a second entity captured in the image;   determining a relationship between the first entity and the second entity; and   generating a reference associated with the image, the reference comprising one or more terms associated with the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.   
     
     
         17 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 16 , wherein the determining a relationship comprises:
 determining the relationship between the first entity and the second entity from a perspective of the first entity.   
     
     
         18 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 16 , further comprising:
 presenting the image and the reference for display to the first entity.   
     
     
         19 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 16 , further comprising:
 maintaining information associated with the relationship between the first entity and the second entity.   
     
     
         20 . The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of  claim 16 , further comprising:
 maintaining an identifier associated with the first entity; and   maintaining an identifier associated with the second entity.