Patent ID: 8274689

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a display; an accepting unit including: a first accepting unit for accepting an input of first information indicating an acquisition source of an image; a second accepting unit for accepting an input of second information indicating an editing process of said image; a third accepting unit for accepting an input of third information indicating an output destination of said image; a display control unit for causing said display to concurrently display first, second and third mutually exclusive areas corresponding to the first, second, and third accepting units, respectively, so that said first, second and third mutually exclusive areas are arranged relative to one another in a sequence the corresponds to an input operation by a user sequentially inputting the first information to the third information, wherein said first area displays at least one icon that is selectable by a user to designate said first information, said second area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said second information and said third area displays at least one icon that is selectable by the user to designate said third information; a memory for storing selected first information to third information; a registration unit for, when said first accepting unit to said third accepting unit accepts at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information, registering said at least two pieces of information of the first information to the third information as a setting information group in said memory; and a reading unit for reading said setting information group from said memory in response to a reading instruction, wherein, when said setting information group is read by said reading unit, said display control unit causes said first area to display said first information, said second area to display said second information and said third area to display said third information.