Patent ID: 7555197

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: display control means for displaying a story board on a display device, the story board displaying a plurality of representative images corresponding to a plurality of image clips in a reproduction order and displaying an audio lane showing a plurality of audio clips in a reproduction order in parallel to the plurality of representative images, and said display control means displaying a border of the audio clip on the audio lane at one of a first predetermined position and a second predetermined position corresponding respectively to a left end and a right end of each of the plurality of representative images; and change means for changing a reproduction order of the plurality of image clips and audio clips by using the story board displayed on the display device, wherein if reproduction of a leading audio clip ends at an intermediate point of a reproduction period of an m-th (m>1) image clip, said display control means displays a front end of the leading audio clip at left end of the audio lane, and displays the border of a back end of the leading audio clip at the first predetermined position corresponding to the representative image of the m-th image clip.