Patent ID: 8468463
Filing Date: 2013-06-18
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a display that displays a plurality of objects; a receiving device that receives selection of a specified one of the plurality of objects by a user's pointing specifying the specified one of the plurality of objects displayed on the display, wherein the selection is performed by the user physically touching the display; a holding device that holds setting of a process for the specified one of the plurality of objects and for any of the plurality of objects overlapped with the specified one of the plurality of objects; a judgment device that judges whether or not the display area of the specified one of the plurality of objects of which the selection is received by the receiving device is overlapped with the display area of any of the plurality of objects; and an execution device that executes the process to select together both the specified one of the plurality of objects of which the selection is received by the receiving device and any of the plurality of objects overlapped with the specified one of the plurality of objects according to the setting held in the holding device, when the judgment device judges that the display area of the specified one of the plurality of objects is overlapped with the display area of any of the plurality of objects, wherein both the selected object and a different object that overlaps the selected object are moveable by the user together as a unit to any position of the display.