Patent ID: 6963672

Claim:
An image processing method for managing and controlling, on a per page basis, plural images stored in a storage means, said method comprising: a page attribute judgment step, of judging whether a page is either an image cell type page in which a number and size of included images on the page are defined or a free image positioned and sized page in which the number and the size of the included images on the page may be flexibly changed; a page display step, of displaying plural images stored in the storage means by distributing the images to each page in accordance with a judgment result obtained in said page attribute judgment step; an insertion and rearrangement step, of, in response to an image insertion command in an image cell type page, moving images belonging to the image cell type page back behind an inserted image without influencing positions of images belonging to free image positioned and sized pages located behind the image cell type page with the inserted image and adding additional pages if no blank cells exist; and a deletion and rearrangement step, of, in response to an image deletion command in an image cell type page, moving images belonging to the image cell type page forward, which were located behind a deleted image, without influencing the positions of the images belonging to the free image positioned and sized pages located behind the image cell type page with the deleted image and deleting blank pages if blank pages appear.