Patent ID: 8875044
Filing Date: 2014-10-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image display element; a touch panel affixed on an entire surface of a display screen of the image display element; instruction detection means for accepting an instruction operation from a user through the touch panel and detecting and outputting a pressure indication and an instruction position of the instruction operation with respect to the touch panel; a memory configured to store image data of a plurality of images; and display control means for performing a control for displaying an image in accordance with the image data stored by the memory on the image display element, wherein in a case where the user performs a continuous movement on the touch panel, the display control means performs a control for scrolling the display image together with images before and after the display image, each image reduced in size, in accordance with a mode of continuous movement determined on the basis of a detection output from the instruction detection means, determines, based on the pressure indication corresponding to the instruction operation, a number of the plurality of images to be displayed during the continuous movement, and performs a control for a reduction rate of the display image in accordance with the pressure indication of the instruction operation output from the instruction detecting means.