Patent ID: RE43813

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image reading unit adapted to read an image; a display control unit adapted to display the read an image on a display device; an area-specifying operation unit adapted to perform an area-specifying operation to specify an area for the image displayed on the displayed device by using an area having a starting point and an end point, the starting point and the end point being located at respective ends of a diagonal line specified by the area-specifying operation; a determination unit adapted to determine a processing area to process the image by an area-specifying operation performed by the area-specifying operation unit; and a setting unit adapted to set, within a display area of the display unit, an operation area for providing an instruction to execute predetermined image processing on the processing area determined by the determination unit, the operation area being set on a position based on the end point specified by the area-specifying operation performed by the area-specifying operation unit.