Patent ID: 7783970

Claim:
A processing apparatus adapted to, when a particular action occurs, display an image assigned to the action, the processing apparatus comprising: an image storage unit adapted to store image data of a plurality of images; a memory unit having a correspondence table configured to store data for the plurality of images; the correspondence table having for each image, an image identifier uniquely identifying a particular image, one or more action identifiers, each action identifier corresponding to an action associated with the particular image, and a usage indicator indicating whether the particular image is in use or not in use; when an image is assigned to a particular action, a correspondence between the action and the assigned image is stored in the action identifier of correspondence table; a control unit adapted to perform a control such that when a particular action occurs, an image assigned to the action is displayed, and such that when a list of images stored in the correspondence table is displayed, the correspondence between images and actions is explicitly represented in the list of images in the correspondence table using an icon; and wherein when the image is assigned to a plurality of actions, the control unit displays one or more icons indicating each of the plurality of actions.