Patent ID: 8451347

Claim:
An image processing apparatus having a recording function to capture an image and record the image on a recording medium and an automatic playback function to read the image recorded on the recording medium and play back automatically, the image processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit configured to read, from the recording medium, the image and added information for specifying a part of the image data as a specified area, such that the image and the added information are associated with each other; a determining unit configured to determine whether the added information is set on an image to be displayed by the automatic playback function; a display control unit configured to control display of the image recorded on the recording medium in an image display area by using the automatic playback function, wherein, if the determining unit determines that the added information is not set on the image, the display control unit displays in the image display area the image without an animation, and if the determining unit determines that the added information is set on the image, the display control unit displays the image in the image display area, and then displays an animation where the specified area is gradually enlarged, and finally displays the enlarged specified area in the image display area; and an animation display setting unit configured to set whether or not an animation is displayed by the display control unit, wherein, in a case where the animation display setting unit sets not to display an animation, when displaying an image on which added information is set, the display control unit does not perform the animation and displays the image in the image display area.