Patent ID: 7852332

Claim:
An image processing apparatus which switches a plurality of images to display an image, comprising: a designate unit adapted to designate, as a display range which indicates the images displayed in the plurality of images, start image identification information of a start image of the range and a range image count equivalent to the range, and an image processing range which indicates the images used for image processing for diagnosis; a storage unit adapted to store the start image identification information and the range image count as the display range and the image processing range designated by said designate unit; an image generation unit adapted to set the images corresponding to each of the images in the display range on the basis of the image processing range, and generate processed images corresponding to the images in the display range by performing image processing on the basis of the set images; and a display control unit adapted to switch the display of images including the processed images in the display range on a display unit; and a control unit adapted to control a change of the display image range in the plurality of images according to designation of said designate unit, and said control unit, if a target image, which does not belong to either of the first display image range before the change and the second display image range after the change, is occurred between the first display range and the second display range, controlling the change of the display image range so as to keep continuity of the displayed images by displaying the target image and then changing to the second display image range after the change.