Patent ID: 8736708

Claim:
An information processing apparatus which allows remote operation of an image capturing apparatus by communicating with the image capturing apparatus via a communication unit, the apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to continuously receive images from the image capturing apparatus and display the images as a moving image; a reception unit configured to receive designation of an image area by a user with respect to an image displayed on said display unit; a first calculation unit configured to calculate white balance information based on color information in the image area of the image displayed when said reception unit received the designation; a determination unit configured to determine, based on color information of the image area on the image displayed when the designation was received, whether white balance information calculated by said first calculation unit is proper; and an applying unit configured to apply white balance information calculated by said first calculation unit to the image capturing apparatus, wherein said determination unit determines whether the white balance information calculated from the color information of the image area is proper or not based on a number of pixels, of pixels in the image area on the image, which have pixel values falling outside a predetermined range.