Patent ID: 8966364
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06K,G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image editing apparatus, comprising: a display device having a display screen; a storage configured to store image data of a plurality of pages; a preview display device configured to display preview images of the image data stored in said storage in a scrollable manner on said display screen; a page selecting device configured to select any page of said image data in response to a user operation selecting said any page; a selected page display device, configured to display an image representing a page or pages selected by said page selecting device in a specific area on said display screen, separate from the preview image displayed by said preview display device and independent from scrolling by said preview display device; and an editing device configured to edit page order of said image data in response to a user operation on the image displayed by said selected page display device; wherein said image displayed by said selected page display device is the image of the selected page or pages selected by said page selecting device, and each of the page or pages in said image displayed by said selected page display device being smaller than any of the preview images of the page displayed by said preview display device, and when a plurality of page images are selected, said image is an image of the pages arranged as a set in ascending order starting from a smaller page number; and said editing device includes a moving apparatus configured to move, in response to a user operation of dragging said image displayed by said selected page display device in said specific area to an area where an arrangement of preview images is displayed by said preview display device, a page corresponding to the image in said image data, and further configured to erase said image when the movement is completed, said image editing apparatus further comprising: a selection cancelling device configured to cancel selection of any of the selected page or pages selected by said page selecting device, in response to a user operation to cancel selection of said any of the selected page or pages; and an erasing device configured to erase, in response to cancellation by said selection cancelling device, that image in the image displayed by said selected page display device which corresponds to the page of which selection is cancelled by said selection cancelling device.