Patent ID: 7548247

Claim:
An image editing apparatus for processing a plurality of image data to be edited that are stored in a storage unit and controlling the display of the image data to be edited on a display unit, the image editing apparatus comprising: an image processing unit adapted to perform image processing on the image data to be edited; a history storage unit adapted to store processing history information of image data which have previously undergone image processing by the image processing unit; a position obtaining unit adapted to obtain position information on the position at which the image processing had been applied to the previously image-processed image data from the processing history information; and a display controller adapted to cause a portion of the image data to be edited, to which the image processing is to be applied, to be displayed on a display area on the display unit, based on the position information, wherein the display controller compensates for the position of the display area in relation to the image to be edited in at least any of the width direction and the height direction of the image to be edited so that only the image to be edited is included in a displayed image within the display area when the displayed image includes images other than the image to be edited.