Patent ID: 8565496

Claim:
An image editing apparatus comprising: a subject frame setting unit configured to set subject frames in an image by correlating the subject frames with each of a plurality of subjects in the image in a case where there are a plurality of subjects in the image; a subject frame selecting unit configured to select either of the plurality of subject frames set by the subject frame setting unit; a subject frame changing unit configured to change a size or a position of the subject frame selected by the subject frame selecting unit; a storage processing unit configured to store, in a storage unit, the subject frames set by the subject frame setting unit and a subject frame of which a size or a position is changed by the subject frame changing unit in correlation with the subject frame which is before changing and selected by the subject frame selecting unit; and a display control unit configured to display the image, wherein a first subject frame is superimposed over the image; a second subject frame is superimposed over the image, wherein a single copy of the image is displayed; during a first time period the first subject frame is displayed as selected and other subject frames are not displayed as selected; during a second time period which does not overlap with the first time period, the second subject frame is displayed as selected and other subject frames are not displayed as selected; and the subject frame of which a size or a position is changed by the subject frame changing unit in correlation with the subject frame which is before changing and selected by the subject frame selecting unit.