Patent ID: 8564624
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G06F,G09G,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a drawing unit which draws one of a plurality of images arranged in an order specified based on a predetermined rule as a reference image in an image memory and which arranges and draws a predetermined number of images located before the reference image and a predetermined number of images located after the reference image, in an order and continuing from the reference image as near images of the reference image with reference to the reference image in the image memory; a display controller which displays images falling within a predetermined range as the near images drawn in the image memory on a display unit; and a controller which changes position of the predetermined range in accordance with an instruction operation of changing a display state of the images on the display unit, when the instruction operation is received, which changes the reference image to another image from the near images drawn in the image memory, when a given condition is satisfied, and which permits the drawing unit to arrange and draw the near images of the changed reference image in the order with reference to the changed reference image, wherein the drawing unit arranges and draws the reference image and the near images in the order in a specified direction in an image drawing region of the image memory, wherein the controller permits, when all of the near images of the changed reference image are not able to be arranged and drawn in the image drawing region in the specified direction in the order upon changing the reference image, the drawing unit to draw a near image, which is not able to be drawn, in the opposite end of the image drawing region in the specified direction in the order.