Patent ID: 8601369

Claim:
An information processing apparatus that arranges and displays on a display device a plurality of images arranged in multiple pages of an electronic album, comprising: a detection unit that detects a switch to a predetermined editing mode for exchanging the plurality of images arranged in the electronic album; a display controller that, when the switch is detected, displays in each of a first display area and a second display area of the display device one or more pages of the electronic album, wherein the first display area and the second display area are arranged next to each other and each display area is individually scrollable; wherein a page displayed in the first display area includes a first image and a page displayed in the second display area includes a second image; a selection unit that selects the first image, wherein the selected first and second images are to be exchanged with each other; an exchange designation unit that designates exchange of the first and second images selected by the selection unit; and an editorial exchange unit to set whether or not to exchange editorial attribute information associated with the first and second images when exchanging the first and second images; an exchange unit that, in response to an instruction from the exchange designation unit, exchanges the selected first and second images such that subsequent to the exchange, the selected first image occupies a location on the page in the second display area previously occupied by the selected second image and the selected second image occupies a location on the page in the first display area previously occupied by the selected first image, wherein the editorial attribute information associated with the first and second images is also exchanged according to the setting in the editorial exchange unit; wherein the display controller, in response to an instruction from the exchange designation unit, displays a result of the exchange of the first and second images on the display device.