Patent ID: 7249317

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for submitting document information including a plurality of images via a network, said apparatus comprising: an image pickup unit; a schedule setting unit adapted to set, in advance, an image pickup position and a image pickup time of said image pickup unit as schedule information and store the schedule information in a memory; an image storage unit adapted to store an image which is obtained by said image pickup unit in accordance with the schedule information stored in the memory; a first display unit adapted to display the images in the document information which had been created; a first designation unit for designating an image among the plurality of images in the document information displayed by said first display unit, to be replaced with an image newly stored in said image storage unit, and displaying the designated image in a different manner from non-designated images; a second display unit adapted to display images newly stored in said image storage unit; a second designation unit for designating a new image among the images displayed by said second display unit and displaying the designated image in a different manner from non-designated images displayed by said second display unit; a document creation unit adapted to create new document information by substituting the image designated by said second designation unit for the designated image, designated by said first designation unit, in the document information; and means for storing an image prepared in advance, and substituting an image among the plurality of images in the document information, which is not changed, by the image prepared in advance.