Patent ID: 8171503

Claim:
An image processing system including an image processing apparatus, a first device, and a second device, and performing image processing in cooperation of the first device and the second device, the image processing system comprising: a setting unit configured to set image processing including a first process and a second process; a search unit configured to search the first device, which is capable of performing the first process included in the image processing set by the setting unit, and the second device, which is capable of performing the second process included in the image processing set by the setting unit; an assigning unit configured to assign the first process to the first device searched by the search unit and to assign the second process to the second device searched by the search unit; a first display control unit configured to display, on a display of the first device that performs the first process assigned by the assigning unit, information indicating an operation to be performed by a user for the second process that is performed after the first process; and a second display control unit configured to display information indicating an operation to be performed by a user for the second process that is to be performed by the second device but is not yet performed, on a display of the second device, before the second device performs the second process.