Patent ID: 7880919

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for editing an image, comprising: a first selection unit adapted to select display images to be displayed from among a plurality of images of different sizes; a display control unit adapted to display images selected by said first selection unit; a second selection unit adapted to select images to be edited from among the plurality of images of different sizes; a position selection unit configured to select an alignment position on which the edit images of different sizes selected by said second selection unit are aligned from among a plurality of candidate alignment positions; an alignment unit adapted to align edit images of different sizes selected by said second selection unit in the alignment position selected by said position selection unit; a designation unit adapted to designate an edit area to be edited, wherein said edit area is defined in coordinates with their origin at the alignment position selected by said position selection unit; an editing unit adapted to edit a drawn content within the edit area of the display images displayed by said display control unit; and an applying unit adapted to apply editing by said editing unit to a drawn content within the edit area of each of the edit images of different sizes, wherein the edit images of different sizes are aligned in the alignment position.