Patent ID: 7024109

Claim:
An information processing apparatus having an image taking function and an image forming function for performing printing on a printing medium, said apparatus comprising: sound taking means for taking sound information; and printing output control means for, when the image forming function prints an image taken by the image taking function on the printing medium, causing the image forming function to print the sound information as code data in a part of the image, a printing position of the code data on the printing medium being changeable. wherein said printing output control means controls the image forming function to print the taken image on substantially a whole area of the printing medium, which has a rectangular shape, and controls the code data to be printed under a standing image of the taken image and along an edge of the printing medium, and wherein when the edge is a relatively shorter edge of the rectangular shape, said printing output control means controls the image forming function to print the code data so that a width of the code data is made larger than that when printing the code data on a relatively longer edge of the rectangular shape.