Patent ID: 8269847

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a document creating unit for creating a document including characters; a displaying unit for displaying data; an image pick-up unit for shooting an object; an image pick-up controlling unit for controlling the image pick-up unit to continuously shoot an object, thereby obtaining a plurality of continuously shot images; a selecting unit for selecting between creating an animation file and creating a moving image file from the plurality of continuously shot images obtained by the image pick-up controlling unit; a creating unit for creating: (i) an animation file using the plurality of continuously shot images obtained by the image pick-up controlling unit, when the selecting unit selects creating an animation file, wherein the plurality of continuously shot images are used as frames of the animation file, and (ii) a moving image file using the plurality of continuously shot images obtained by the image pick-up controlling unit, when the selecting unit selects creating a moving image file, wherein the plurality of continuously shot images are used as frames of the moving image file; and a display controlling unit for controlling the displaying unit to display: (i) characters of the document created by the document creating unit with the animation file inserted in a body of the document, wherein the animation file is created by the creating unit, and (ii) the moving image file created by the creating unit as an attachment file to the document created by the document creating unit.