Patent ID: 8624920

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to acquire a background image and one or more objects; a display control unit configured to cause a display screen to display an image in which the one or more objects are combined on the background image; a moving control unit configured to move, according to a rotating instruction by a user, the one or more objects displayed by the display control unit relative to the background image, so as to keep a distance between a center of the background image and the one or more objects, and so as to keep, during the moving of the one or more objects relative to the background image, both of an orientation, with respect to the display screen and the background image, from top to bottom of the one or more objects and an orientation with respect to the display screen from top to bottom of the background image; and a determining unit configured to determine a layout of the background image and the at least one objects according to the moving by the moving control unit.