Image extracting apparatus, image extracting method, and image extracting program

[0027] The invention will now be described based on the preferred embodiments, which do not intend to limit the scope of the present invention, but exemplify the invention. All of the features and the combinations thereof described in the embodiment are not necessarily essential to the invention.

[0028]FIG. 1 is a view exemplary showing a use environment of an album creating apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The album creating apparatus 100 and a photo stand 110 are examples of an image extracting apparatus according to the present invention. The album creating apparatus 100 receives a plurality of candidate images via a network 180. In addition, a candidate image may be a still image or a moving-image constituting image included in a moving image. Moreover, a moving-image constituting image may be either of various types of images constituting a frame image, a field image, and other moving images. Then, the album creating apparatus 100 extracts a candi