Patent ID: 8547467

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an operation receiving unit; a control unit configured to perform a normal mode display process of displaying icon images of kinds corresponding to an operation status of the apparatus on the display unit and an icon description display process of displaying an icon selection image for selecting an icon image that is being displayed on the display unit upon reception of an operation input to activate an icon description mode by the operation receiving unit during the normal mode display process on the display unit and displaying a description image for the icon image selected upon reception of an operation input by the operation receiving unit while the icon selection image is being displayed on the display unit; and an imaging unit, wherein an image captured by the imaging unit is displayed and the icon images are displayed with the captured image in the normal mode display process, in the display of the icon selection image in the icon description mode, an image different from that in the normal mode display process is displayed as a background image, and the image different from that in the normal mode display process is a still image stored in advance in a storage unit.