Patent ID: 8471924

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 and color information of image areas on a predetermined number of images received before the image, 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 when said determination unit determines that the white balance information is proper, wherein if a ratio between the number of pixels, of pixels in the image area on any one of the images used for determination, which have pixel values falling outside a predetermined range and the total number of pixels in the image area exceeds a threshold, said determination unit determines that the white balance information calculated from the color information of the image area is not proper.