Patent ID: 7952620

Claim:
An image processing apparatus having a recording function to capture an image and record the image on a recording medium and an automatic playback function to read the image recorded on the recording medium and play back automatically, the image processing apparatus comprising: a trimming information setting unit configured to set, on the image recorded on the recording medium, trimming information for cutting out a part of the image data as a trimming area, such that the image and the trimming information are associated with each other; a determining unit configured to determine whether the trimming information is set on an image to be displayed by the automatic playback function; a display control unit configured to control display of the image recorded on the recording medium in an image display area by using the automatic playback function, wherein, if the determining unit determines that the trimming information is not set on the image, the display control unit displays in the image display area the image without an animation, and if the determining unit determines that the trimming information is set on the image, the display control unit displays the image in the image display area, and then an animation where the trimming area is gradually enlarged, and finally the enlarged trimming area in the image display area; and an animation display setting unit configured to set whether or not an animation is displayed by the display control unit, wherein, in a case where the animation display setting unit sets not to display an animation, when displaying an image on which trimming information is set, the display control unit does not perform the animation and displays the image in the image display area.