Patent ID: 8373788
Filing Date: 2013-02-12
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image display device; means for accepting via an operating screen having a plurality of operating areas provided as to a display screen of said image display device, an instruction operation from a user and for detecting and outputting an instruction position of said instruction operation as to an operating face; means for storing, holding, and managing image data by date and by event; and means for controlling so as to display an image according to said image data stored and held in at least said means for storing on said image display device; wherein when a tracing operation to trace said operating face is performed by the user, said means for controlling controls the display of the image to be displayed on said display screen of said image display device so as to be changed, according to the operated operating area and direction of operation that is distinguished based on the detecting output from means for accepting, a first of the plurality of operating areas displays a date of image data currently being displayed in a second of the plurality of operating areas, the first operating area being arranged directly above the second operating area in a vertical direction and the date being displayed upright, when the image processing apparatus is oriented in a position, the second operating area displays a plurality of thumbnails of the image data in a horizontal row, the plurality of thumbnails being displayed upright, when the image processing apparatus is oriented in the same position, and a third of the plurality of operating areas displays an event corresponding to the image data currently displayed and aligned with an edge of one of the plurality of thumbnails, the third operating area being arranged directly beneath the second operating area in the vertical direction and the event being displayed upright, when the image processing apparatus is oriented in the same position.